第四章：生活在分离中

Chapter 4: Living in Separation

Living in Separation – Feeling Alone and Afraid
生活在分离中——感到孤独和恐惧

As revealed to God’s Messenger Marshall Vian Summers on March 3, 2011 in Boulder, CO
2011年3月3日，在科罗拉多州博尔德(Boulder, CO)，向上帝的信使马歇尔・维安・萨默斯(Marshall Vian Summers)揭示

You are living in a state of Separation—as a singular person, seemingly distinct from all other singular persons, distinct from other life forms, with a singular identity and awareness.

你生活在一种分离的状态中——作为一个单独的个体，似乎与所有其他个体、其他生命形式区分开来，拥有独立的身份和觉知。

You are with others, but essentially alone. You can create your own thoughts. You can imagine whatever you like based upon your experience in the world. If you have political freedom and social mobility, you can even set your own direction in life.

你与他人在一起，但实质上是孤独的。你可以创造你自己的感想。你可以根据你在这个世界上的经历，想象你喜欢的任何东西。如果你有政治自由以及社会流动性，你甚至可以设定自己的生活方向。

You seem to be alone in the privacy of your own mind and thoughts. You may even think that your thoughts are your thoughts, but the vast majority of them you have accumulated and absorbed from people and society around you.

在你自己的心灵和感想的隐私中，你似乎是孤独的。你甚至可能认为你的感想就是你的思想，但其中绝大多数其实是你从周围的人和社会中积累和吸收的。

You hope and pray that life will be good to you, but calamity is always possible, and things can change in a moment. Now the world is undergoing great and convulsive change, Great Waves of change, and there is a greater sense of uncertainty and anxiety about the future and what may be coming over the horizon.

你希望并祈祷生活对你友善，但灾难总是可能发生，情况也可能在一瞬间发生改变。现在，世界正在经历巨大的、令人震惊的变化，变革的巨浪，对未来和地平线上可能出现的事件有一种更大的不确定性和焦虑感。

To be alone is to be afraid—to be afraid of pain, to be afraid of loss, to be afraid of rejection, to be afraid of criticism, to be afraid you will not have what you need or what you want. And, of course, this becomes the source of aberrant behavior, dishonesty, manipulation, avoidance, distractions, indulgences, obsessions, addictions—everything.

孤独就是害怕，害怕痛苦，害怕失去，害怕被拒绝，害怕批评，害怕你得不到你需要的资源或你想要的关系。当然，这也会成为反常的行为、不诚实、操纵、回避、分心、放纵、痴迷、上瘾——一切的来源。

The world you live in seems to be a world of the separated. Creatures in nature are competing with each other and devouring each other. People get along superficially in order to maintain social order, but it seems that real devotion, especially to one beyond your family, [is] rare and exceptional.

你所生活的世界似乎是一个分离的世界。自然界中的动物相互竞争，相互吞噬。人们为了维持社会秩序而表面上相处，但似乎真正的奉献，特别是对你的家人以外的人的奉献，[是]罕见的和特殊的。

It is a hopeless situation. People have tried a thousand escapes and avoidances, but never can they seem to escape their fundamental dilemma—the dilemma of Separation.

它是一个无望的局面。人们已经尝试过无数次的逃避和规避，但似乎永远无法摆脱他们根本的困境——分离的困境。

Though the world has great beauty and nature is fascinating, it is difficult to be truly happy and at ease in the physical environment. It is demanding. It requires constant problem solving and adaptation. It is complex, particularly if you are engaged with many people. It is vexing. It is confusing. And it is hazardous.

尽管世界充满美丽，大自然令人着迷，但在物质环境中要真正感到幸福和自在却很困难。它充满挑战，需要不断地解决问题和适应。特别是当你与许多人交往时，环境变得更加复杂。这种环境既令人烦恼，又让人困惑，甚至充满危险。

Even nature itself, if you were to face it honestly, has many hazards. For though it seems that you care for nature, it does not seem to care for you. You care for nature and its beauty, and to maintain its diversity and its essential qualities, but nature does not seem to care whether you live or die. You are just a feature of the landscape, a temporary feature.

甚至自然它本身，如果你诚实地面对它，也有许多危险。因为尽管你似乎关心自然，但它似乎并不关心你。你关心自然和自然之美，并保持它的多样性和它的重要品质，但自然似乎并不关心你的生与死。你只是风景中的一道风景，一道暂时的风景。

This, of course, is a stark picture, but it is an honest one. When you set aside your avoidances and your dishonesty, your preferences, your dreams and fantasies, you will have to come to this essential reckoning within yourself.

当然，这是一幅严酷的画面，但它也是一幅诚实的画面。当你把你的回避和不诚实、你的偏好、你的梦想和幻想放在一边时，你将不得不在自己的内心进行这种必要的清算。

It can be a hard landing for many people as they find themselves all of a sudden facing illness, financial deprivation, the prospect of loss and greater loss, problems in relationships, problems with health, problems with employment, problems even, for the poorer people, with survival itself.

对许多人来说，这可能是一次艰难的着陆，因为他们发现自己突然面临疾病、经济匮乏、损失和更大损失的前景、关系问题、健康问题、就业问题，甚至对较贫穷的人来说，生存本身也是问题。

Yet within this hopeless situation, with seemingly no real and substantive remedy, God has created the antidote, the antidote to Separation. For part of you has not separated from God. It never separated from God. It is connected to God already, completely.

然而在这种无望的情况下，似乎没有真正的实质性补救措施，上帝创造了解药，分离的解药。因为你的一部分并没有与上帝分离。它从未与上帝分离。它已经与上帝相连，完全相连。

This part of you exists beyond the realm and the reach of the intellect. For the intellect was mostly created as a sophisticated intelligence to navigate the difficulties of living in physical reality. It is a marvelous instrument, but it is not who you really are. You are not your mind. But if you are not your mind, then what are you? It seems a great void, a great mystery, a great question.

你的这部分存在于智力的领域和范围之外。因为智力主要是作为一种复杂的智能被创造出来的，以驾驭生活在物理现实中的困难。它是一个了不起的工具，但它不是你真正是谁。你不是你的心灵。但是如果你不是你的心灵，那你会是什么？它似乎是一个巨大的空白，一个巨大的谜团，一个巨大的问题。

God has given an answer to the problem that seems to have no answer—a pathway out of Separation, a pathway that does not divorce you from life or from your experience and responsibilities here, but places you squarely within them, but with a greater purpose and a greater incentive.

上帝已经为这个似乎没有答案的问题给出了答案——一条走出分离的道路，一条不会使你脱离生命或脱离你在这里的经历以及责任的道路，而是将你完全置于其中，但有一个更伟大的目的和更伟大的激励。

We call the part of you that is not separated from God, Knowledge. We call it Knowledge because it is related to your ability to profoundly know things—beyond evidence, beyond reason, beyond normal calculations. You have the ability to see, to know and to act with the greater Intelligence of Knowledge as your guide and counsel. It is this Knowledge that will redeem you.

我们把你不与上帝分离的这部分称为内识。我们称它为内识，因为它与你深刻知道事物的能力有关——超越证据、超越理性、超越正常计算。你有能力看见、知道并以内识的更伟大智能作为你的指导和建议来行动。正是这个内识将使你得到救赎。

God does not have to perseverate over your life and all your little affairs. The Lord of all the universes is not going to come and to attend to your life and be obsessed with your day-to-day difficulties and activities.

上帝不必执着于你的生命和你所有的小事。所有宇宙的主不会来关注你的生命，也不会纠缠于你的日常困难和活动。

But God has placed within you the power of redemption. For Knowledge is the part of you that is wise and uncorrupted by the world, the part of you that is not afraid of the world. It is here to guide that part of you that is corrupted by the world, that is afraid of the world, and that has created a complex and often ineffective adaptation to the world.

但是，上帝已经在你内心安置了救赎的力量。因为内识是你明智的一部分，不受世界的腐蚀，以及不惧怕世界的部分。它在这里指导你被世界腐蚀的这部分，即害怕世界的这部分，它创造了一个复杂而往往无效的对世界的适应。

Here Knowledge is meant to guide your mind—your intellect, your personal mind, your worldly mind—and all that it contains. It is Knowledge that will set a new course for you and bring different kinds of relationships into your life, re-establish your priorities and over time give you the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

这里的内识是为了引导你的心灵——你的智力、你的个人心智、你的世俗心智——以及它所包含的一切。它是内识，它将为你设定一个新的方向，并将不同类型的关系带入你的生命，重新建立你的优先事项，并随着时间的推移，给你一双眼睛去看，一双耳朵去听。

This is such a phenomenal gift. It truly is a great endowment. But, of course, most people are too busy, too distracted and too obsessed with their own thinking and affairs to be able to experience Knowledge, or even be aware of it.

这是一份了不起的礼物。它确实是一个伟大的禀赋。但是，当然，大多数人都太忙了，太分心了，太沉迷于自己的思维方式和事务，无法体验到内识，甚至无法察觉到它。

Some people call it intuition, those momentary flashes of insight or recognition that seem remarkable. But they are so rare and so infrequent and so unreliable that most people do not realize they actually have a greater Intelligence within them.

有些人称其为直觉，那些瞬间闪现的洞察力或识别力，似乎很了不起。但它们是如此罕见，如此少见，如此不可靠，以至于大多数人都没有认识到在他们内心其实有一种更伟大的智能。

As the world grows more dark and difficult, as uncertainty arises, as the economic and social instability increases and the world braces itself for the Great Waves of change, the part of you that is weak will become more exasperated and more afraid. It will tend to enter into greater forms of denial and self-obsession to protect itself from the realities existing around it.

随着世界变得更加黑暗和困难，随着不确定性的出现，随着经济和社会的不稳定，以及世界为变革的巨浪所做的准备，你软弱的这部分将变得更加恼怒和更加恐惧。它将倾向于进入更大形式的否认和自恋，以保护自己不受周围现实的影响。

But into these increasingly difficult times, the power and the presence of Knowledge can emerge strongly because you will come to a point when you realize you need it; you must have it; you require its wisdom, its clarity, its integrity and its fearlessness.

但是，在这些越来越困难的时期，内识的力量和存在可以强烈地出现，因为你将来到一个点，你认识到你需要它；你必须拥有它；你需要它的智慧、它的清晰、它的完整和它的无畏。

God has planted Knowledge within every person as the seed and source of their redemption. Redemption will not occur because you believe in a great saint or a great Messenger. Redemption will not even occur if you believe in God or practice a religion faithfully, for you are still lost in the mind, the worldly mind. Your attempt at religion is an escape from the world, a desperate attempt to have purpose and meaning in your life that transcends the hard realities that you see all around you.

上帝在每个人的内心都放置了内识，作为他们救赎的种子和来源。救赎不会因为你相信一位伟大的圣人或一位伟大的信使而发生。即使你信仰上帝或虔诚地实践一种宗教，救赎甚至也不会发生，因为你仍然迷失在心灵中，世俗的心智中。你对宗教的追求是一种试图逃避现实的努力，是一种绝望的尝试，试图在你周围看到的严酷现实之外找到生命的目的和意义。

Yet real redemption occurs because you are responding to something powerful on the inside, and it is opening your mind to a greater realm of experience and relationships. It is transforming your perception and your idea of yourself.

然而，真正的救赎之所以发生，是因为你对内心强大的内识做出了回应，它正在将你的心灵打开，进入一种更伟大的经历以及关系的领域。它正在改变你的感知和你对自己的想法。

This can take place whether you practice a religion or not. But religious practice can be very helpful here if you understand that is its purpose. Regardless of your tradition or the history of your tradition, the purpose of your practice is to engage you with the power and the presence of Knowledge.

无论你是否信奉宗教，这都可以发生。但是，如果你理解这是宗教的目的，宗教实践在这里可以很有帮助。无论你的传统或你传统的历史如何，你实践的目的是让你参与到内识的力量和存在。

Prayer, meditation, prostration, dedication, recitation, contemplation—these are all to bring you to this greater Intelligence that exists beyond the realm and the reach of the intellect. This is where you connect with God and where God can influence your thinking and behavior.

祈祷、冥想、跪拜、奉献、诵读、沉思——这些都是为了把你带到这个存在于智力领域和范围之外的更伟大智能。在这里，你可以与上帝连接，上帝也可以在这里影响你的思维方式和行为。

Knowledge is not the subconscious mind. You cannot use it to gain wealth or advantage or to win people over. It is not like this at all. Your subconscious mind is still your worldly mind. It just has parts of it that you are unaware of or do not utilize on a daily basis.

内识不是潜意识。你不能用它来获得财富或优势，或赢得人们的青睐。它根本不是这样的。你的潜意识仍然是你的世俗心智。它只是有一些你没有察觉到的部分，或者没有在日常中使用到的部分。

We are speaking of something else—something more mysterious and profound, something you cannot use to enrich yourself. You cannot manipulate it because it is pure. It is more powerful than your intellect, your plans, your goals and your schemes. To think that you could use Knowledge to get what you want is to underestimate what Knowledge really is and to overestimate your abilities and your own wisdom to know what is true and right to do.

我们谈论的是另一个部分——一个更神秘、更深奥的部分，一个你无法用来充实自己的部分。你无法操纵内识，因为它是纯粹的。它比你的智力、计划、目标和方案更强大。认为你可以使用内识来得到你想要的东西，这既低估了内识的真正含义，高估了你的能力和你自己的智慧，高估了你知道什么是真实的、正确的行动。

God redeems the separated through Knowledge, whether you are a human being living in this world or another intelligent being living in another world—in any world, in all worlds. For all sentient beings have Knowledge. This does not mean that they know of Knowledge or follow Knowledge or are aware of Knowledge, but it is there nonetheless.

上帝通过内识来救赎分离的人，无论你是生活在这个世界上的人，还是生活在另一个世界上的其他智能生命，在任何世界上，在所有世界上。因为所有众生都有内识。这并不意味着他们知道内识，或遵循内识，或察觉到内识，但内识还是存在。

Here you must turn your approach inward, for believing in Jesus or Muhammad or the Buddha will not bridge the gap of Separation that exists between you and your Source, and between the part of you that lives in the world and is of the world and the part of you that is not of the world.

在这里，你必须把你的方法转向内部，因为相信耶稣、穆罕默德或佛陀不会弥合存在于你和你的源头之间的分离的差距，也不能弥合你生活在世界中的一部分与不属于世界的另一部分之间的分离。

Here Separation is both internal and external. In Separation, you are divorced from your deeper nature. It is unknown to you. It is a mystery. You are divorced from others. And you are seemingly divorced from your Source because that part of your mind that is worldly, living in Separation, actually thinks Separation is the real reality, it is the essence of things, it is the truth of things, it is the inescapable fact of things on a practical level.

在这里，分离既有内部的，也有外部的。在分离中，你与你更深层面的自然性分离。它对你来说是未知的。它是一种神秘的存在。你与他人分离。而且你似乎与你的源头分离，因为你心灵中的这一部分是世俗的，生活在分离中，实际上认为分离是真正的现实，它是现实的实质，它是现实的真理，它是现实生活中无法回避的事实。

You still have to function in the world. You still have to compete with others. You still have to get along with others. You have to deal with disagreement, dishonesty, conflict and all the machinations of the mind within yourself and within others.

你仍然必须在这个世界上发挥作用。你仍然要与他人竞争。你仍然必须与他人相处。你必须处理分歧，不诚实，冲突以及你自己和他人的所有心计。

Without Knowledge, this becomes so problematic and so hazardous and so unfortunate that people escape into fantasies and, if they can afford it, into hobbies and dreams to try to have some sense of value and meaning, some sense of permanence and reprieve from the world.

没有内识，世界就变得如此麻烦，如此危险，如此不幸，以至于人们逃避到幻想中，如果他们有能力的话，则逃避到爱好和梦想中，试图获得某种价值感和意义，某种持久感和对世界的缓和。

God’s New Revelation presents The Way of Knowledge, as it is taught not only in this world, but throughout the Greater Community of worlds in the universe. It is a universal teaching. It is not overlaid with human history, human culture, human conflict or human personalities. It is essential and pure. It is the pathway the great mystics have always followed, the great artists, the great inventors, the great humanitarians. The evidence is in your history and in your world, but it is not mundane; it is not everywhere. You may have to search for it to find the inspiration in other people that is the evidence of a greater Knowledge at work.

上帝的新启示提出了内识之路，因为它不仅在这个世界上被教导，而且在整个宇宙世界的大社区中也被教导。它是一种普遍的教导。它没有被人类历史、人类文化、人类冲突或人性所覆盖。它是必不可少的和纯净的讯息。它是伟大的神秘主义者、伟大的艺术家、伟大的发明家、伟大的人道主义者一直遵循的途径。证据就在你们的历史和世界中，但它不是世俗的；它不是无处不在。你可能不得不去寻找它，以便在其他人身上找到灵感，而这些灵感正是更伟大的内识在工作的证据。

To become truly honest, you must recognize your predicament and come to terms with it—without denial, without avoidance and without manipulation. Your predicament is you are living in Separation, and you are a stranger to yourself.

要变得真正诚实，你必须认识到你的困境并接受它——不否认、不回避、不操纵。你的困境是你生活在分离中，你对自己是个陌生人。

You know your tendencies and aspects of personality. You know something about your past. You know what you look like. You can distinguish yourself from others based upon qualities of your personality, activities and perhaps unique features.

你知道你的倾向和人格的各个方面。你知道一些关于你的过去。你知道你看起来像什么。你可以根据你的个性、活动以及也许是独特的特征将自己与其他人区分开来。

But you are a stranger to your deeper nature, your real nature, your permanent nature—the part of you that has never left God and Creation, the part of you that lives within you today and that will be there for you when you leave this world, as it was there for you before you entered this world.

但是你对自己更深层面的本性，你真正的自然性，你持久的自然性——你从未离开过上帝和创造的这部分，在今天生活在你内心的这部分，当你离开这个世界时，它将在你身边，就像你进入这个世界之前它就在你身边。

Without Knowledge, life is difficult. It is fearful. It is problematic. Though beautiful, it is also dangerous. Though pleasant, it is very painful. Great disappointment will attend you as your ideals fail and as you are disappointed by yourself and other people.

没有内识，生命是困难的。它是恐惧的。它是有问题的。虽然美丽，它也是危险的。虽然愉快，但却非常痛苦。当你的理想失败时，当你对自己和其他人感到失望时，极大的失望将伴随着你。

God knows this is the source of your suffering, your anxiety and your dysfunction. People do not realize this yet. They think they are doing well. They have advantages. They are moving forward. They have things other people do not have. Perhaps they live in a rich nation and have affluence and opportunity and food, water and energy are not a big problem.

上帝知道这是你的痛苦、焦虑和功能障碍的根源。人们还没有认识到这一点。他们认为自己做得很好。他们有优势。他们正在向前迈进。他们拥有其他人没有的优势。也许他们生活在一个富裕的国家，拥有富裕的生活和机会，食物、水和能源都不是大问题。

But the condition is still the same, you see, whether you are the richest person on Earth or the poorest person living in the poorest country. Your circumstances are vastly different. Your opportunities are vastly different. The degree of social power you have is vastly different. But your predicament in Separation is still the same. You are still isolated and struggling in a world that does not seem to care very much about you.

但是条件仍然是一样的，你看，无论你是地球上最富有的人还是生活在最贫穷国家的最贫穷的人。你们的情况有很大的不同。你们的机会有很大的不同。你们拥有的社会权力的程度也大不相同。但是你们在分离中的困境仍然是一样的。你们仍然孤立无援，在一个似乎并不十分关心你的世界里挣扎。

This is a harsh reckoning, but a necessary one because this is where you become really honest with yourself. But to face this great truth, you must have the awareness of Knowledge, or you will become angry and jaded, negative and pessimistic. All hope will seem to leave you because you do not know the source of hope, the meaning of hope and where true inspiration comes from.

这是一个残酷的清算，但也是一个必要的清算，因为这是你对自己真正诚实的地方。但是要面对这个巨大的事实，你必须有内识的觉知，否则你会变得愤怒和厌倦，消极和悲观。所有的希望似乎都会离开你，因为你不知道希望的来源，希望的意义，以及真实的灵感来自哪里。

You may be entertained by the world and try to keep yourself in a state of entertainment through art and music, comedy and all of these things—if you can afford such things, which very few people can. But this is all an escape still, you see. Even working hard and priding yourself on your work accomplishments, even this becomes a form of escape.

你可能会被这个世界所娱乐，并试图通过艺术和音乐、喜剧和所有这些爱好使自己处于娱乐状态——如果你能负担得起这些爱好的话，但很少有人能做到。但这一切仍然是一种逃避，你看。即使是努力工作，为自己的工作成就感到自豪，甚至这也成为一种逃避的形式。

People cannot sit still for five seconds. They are so driven and aggravated and obsessed. They are afraid of themselves. They are afraid of other people. They are afraid of life and what may come in the future. Driven they are, pathetic, and even more pathetic when they really have pride and think they are superior and above and beyond other people.

人们无法静坐五秒钟。他们是如此被驱使、被激怒、被迷惑。他们害怕自己。他们害怕其他人。他们害怕生命，害怕未来可能发生的事情。他们被驱使着，很可怜，当他们真的有了骄傲，认为自己高人一等，超越了其他人时，就更可怜了。

The Angels watch this and shake their heads: “This is truly a sad case. It will take longer for this person to come to terms with the reality of their life and situation.”

天使们看着这一切，摇摇头。”这确实是一个可悲的境况。这个人需要更长的时间来接受他们的生命和处境的现实。”

In this respect, the rich are further from the truth than the poor. The rich are more caught up in their passions and obsessions, hobbies and activities. It can be more difficult for them to come to terms with the reality of their lives.

在这一点上，富人比穷人离真理更远。富人更多的是陷入他们的激情和痴迷，爱好和活动中。他们可能更难接受自己生命的现实。

Into this hopeless situation, the Creator of all life has given the antidote—the antidote to suffering, the antidote to Separation. It lives mysteriously within you. You cannot use it and control it. You cannot extinguish it. You can avoid it and run from it, which you have been doing all along, but it is still there for you.

在这种无望的情况下，所有生命的创造者给出了解药——痛苦的解药，分离的解药。它神秘地生活在你的内心。你无法使用它和控制它。你无法熄灭它。你可以避开它，逃避它，你一直都在这么做，但它仍然这里等待着你。

God does not have to manage your life. God does not have to manage the affairs of this world. God does not control the weather and the sequence of events, for that is all in motion. That was set in motion at the beginning of time, and it is still in motion and will be in motion for as long as you can imagine.

上帝不需要管理你的生命。上帝不需要管理这个世界的事务。上帝并不控制天气和事件的顺序，因为这都是在运动中。在时间之初就设定好的，现在仍在运动中，只要你能想象，它就会一直运动下去。

The great redemption is the reclamation of Knowledge. God has provided the Steps to Knowledge, the preparation given with God’s New Revelation. Here your thinking, intellectual mind, your worldly mind, is connected through practice, awareness and application to the deeper Mind of Knowledge within you.

伟大的救赎是内识的开垦。上帝已经提供了通往内识的阶梯，即与上帝的新启示一起给予的准备。在这里，你的思维方式、理智的心灵，你的世俗心智，通过练习、觉知和应用，连接到你内在的更深层面的内识心智。

Here it is important not to think that you already know of these things, that you are very intuitive, because you are only a beginner in The Way of Knowledge. Do not think that you have already traveled up and down this mountain, for you have never been on this mountain before.

在这里，重要的是不要认为你已经知道这些事情，你很有直觉，因为你只是内识之路的一名初学者。不要认为你已经在这座山上走了一圈又一圈，因为你以前从未走过这座山。

It is all a question of honesty, you see. Honesty begins with what you tell yourself. Tell yourself a lie, and you will lie to others and think you are very consistent and are being honest. But you are merely spreading the dishonesty you have established with yourself, spreading it out into the world around you—misinforming others, creating false impressions. Even if you think you are being honest and want to be honest, until you have this deeper reckoning, dishonesty will still be a great problem for you.

它都是一个诚实的问题，你看。诚实始于你对自己说的话。告诉自己一个谎言，你就会对他人撒谎，并认为自己非常一致，是诚实的。但你只是在传播你对自己建立的不诚实，把它传播到你周围的世界——误导他人，制造错误的印象。即使你认为自己是诚实的，并且想要诚实，在你有这种更深层面的清算之前，不诚实仍然会是你的一个巨大问题。

Real honesty can be triggered by mishap in life, tragedy in life, loss in life. The benefit of these things is they can make you more honest and more able to reckon your real needs and circumstances.

真正的诚实可以由生活中的不幸、生活中的悲剧、生活中的损失引发。这些事情的好处是它们可以使你更诚实，更能够评估到你的真实需求和情况。

But you cannot resolve these things alone. You cannot resolve them based upon ideas or theories alone. You cannot base them on productive activities alone because you need the guidance of Knowledge.

但你不能单独解决这些问题。你不能仅仅基于想法或理论来解决这个问题。你不能仅仅依靠有益的活动来确定它们，因为你需要内识的指导。

To receive this guidance, you must yield to Knowledge. You must yield your preferences, your wishes and your obsessions. You cannot follow if you insist upon leading. Yet the act of following is the act of bridging the gap, and slowly and incrementally undoing Separation.

要收到这种指导，你必须向内识屈服。你必须放弃你的喜好、你的愿望和你的痴迷。如果你坚持领导，你就不能跟随。然而，遵循的行为是弥合差距的行为，是慢慢地、渐进地消除分离的行为。

It is honesty that tells you if your relationship with another is real and genuine and has promise for the future. Regardless of attractions and beauty and charm, agreements and prior investments and all of this, it is honesty, self-honesty.

只有诚实才能告诉你，你与他人的关系是真实的、真诚的，并且对未来有希望。不管有没有吸引力、美貌和魅力、协议和先前的投资以及所有这一切，它都是诚实的、自我诚实的。

What motivates you to be this honest is that you do not want to suffer. You do not want to waste your life on a meaningless pursuit or a relationship that has no future or destiny. It is suffering that teaches you to value your experience and your time. It is suffering that can bring you back to yourself and to God.

促使你如此诚实的原因是，你不想再受苦了。你不想把你的生命浪费在毫无意义的追求或没有前途以及天命的关系上。正是痛苦教会你珍惜你的经验和时间。正是痛苦能使你回到你自己的身边，回到上帝的身边。

Yet no one wants to suffer, so everyone tries to escape suffering in the pursuit of happiness and all of its manifestations. But it is disappointment that brings you back. It is sobriety that brings you back. It is reconciliation with yourself that brings you back. It is facing your mistakes and the loss of your time and life that brings you back.

然而没有人愿意受苦，所以每个人都试图在追求幸福及其所有表现形式的过程中逃避痛苦。但把你带回来的是失望。是清醒带你回来。只有与自己的和解才能把你带回来。是面对你的错误，面对你的时间和生命的损失，才把你带回。

Knowledge is waiting for you, but you must recognize your need for Knowledge. This is a fundamental and essential recognition. It is the beginning of real self-honesty and real honesty with others.

内识在等着你，但你必须承认你对内识的需要。这是一个根本的、必不可少的认识。它是真正的自我诚实和对他人真正诚实的开始。

Without Knowledge, you are constantly misrepresenting yourself and your intentions to others. You are trying to get things from people. You want to use them as resources. You want them for pleasure or security, companionship or advantage of some kind. So you do not see the meaning of the relationship or the lack of meaning of the relationship. You only see what you want out of the situation.

没有内识，你就会不断向他人歪曲自己以及自己对他人的意图。你试图从他人那里得到东西。你想把他们作为资源使用。你想要他们是为了快乐或安全，陪伴或某种益处。所以你没有看到关系的意义或关系缺乏的意义。你只看到你想从这种关系中得到的资源。

Here you misrepresent yourself, you become dishonest, you establish false expectations, false goals, false relationships, false involvements and so forth until you become entwined and lost in a set of circumstances that you can no longer control. You have given your life away. You have cast your fate. Now you must live with the consequences. And the journey out of that jungle is very difficult and very trying.

在这里，你歪曲了你自己，你变得不诚实，你建立了错误的期望、错误的目标、错误的关系、错误的参与等等，直到你陷入一系列你无法再控制的局面，在这里纠缠和迷失。你已经放弃了你的生命。你已经铸造了你的命运。现在你必须承受后果。而走出丛林的旅程是非常困难的，也是非常煎熬的。

You must come to your need for Knowledge. In a moment of real sobriety and self-honesty, you will see that you cannot find your way without Knowledge. You cannot resolve your dilemmas without Knowledge. You cannot know who you are without Knowledge. You cannot discern the true relationships from the false without Knowledge. You cannot bridge to a new and better life without Knowledge. You cannot resolve the problems of the world without Knowledge.

你必须来到你对内识的需求。在一个真正清醒和自我诚实的时刻，你会看到，没有内识，你就无法找到自己的路。没有内识，你无法解决你的困境。没有内识，你无法知道你是谁。没有内识，你无法辨别真假关系。没有内识，你无法架起通往新的、更伟大生命的桥梁。没有内识，你无法解决世界上的问题。

You may come to this realization incrementally. You may come in moments of sobriety and self-examination. You may come in moments of disappointment and disillusionment. Perhaps the realization will happen gradually, step by step, as you learn to take the Steps to Knowledge.

你可能会渐渐认识到这一点。你可能会在清醒和自我审视的时刻来到这里。你可能会在失望和幻灭的时刻来到这里。也许这种认识会逐渐发生，一步接着一步，当你学习开展通往内识的阶梯时。

People begin this journey thinking that Knowledge is going to be a resource for them. They are going to use Knowledge to get what they want—better work, better relationships, better health, better opportunities, better advantages, more pleasure and less pain. But at some point they must come to see that Knowledge is not really going to give them what they want. It is really here to provide them what they truly need and what they desire at a deeper, more profound level.

人们开始这段旅程时，认为内识会成为他们的资源。他们将利用内识来获得他们想要的东西——更好的工作、更好的关系、更好的健康、更好的机会、更好的优势、更多的快乐和更少的痛苦。但在某些时刻，他们必须看到，内识并不是真的要给他们想要的东西。它的真正目的是为他们提供他们真正需要的关系，以及他们在更深层面上的愿望。

People do not see this at the outset because they are not yet honest enough to recognize their truest and most profound needs. They are still trying to play life for advantages, to maneuver in life for advantages, to play the hazardous game for advantages. They have not yet come to a place of honesty and humility to see that they need God’s Guidance and Power in their life, and without it—though they may try bravely to navigate a difficult world and to resolve complex and seemingly pervasive problems—they will not really be able to be successful.

人们在一开始没有看到这一点，因为他们还没有诚实到足以识别自己最真实和最深刻的需求。他们仍然试图为利益而玩弄生命，为利益而在生命中周旋，为利益而玩弄危险的游戏。他们还没有走到一个诚实和谦逊的地方，看到他们在生命中需要上帝的指导和力量，如果没有它——尽管他们可能勇敢地尝试在一个困难的世界中航行，解决复杂和似乎普遍存在的问题——他们将无法真正取得成功。

It is in giving up illusions that you bring yourself to this moment of recognition. Here you begin to take the Steps to Knowledge with real intention. It is not merely a wonderful thing to do to enhance your life, to sweeten your life, to give you advantages, to make you look more spiritual to yourself. It is here to actually save you, to redeem you, to restore you, to renew you, to give you a greater authority within yourself and a true sense of integrity. Knowledge connects you with your deeper conscience, not your social conscience, but your deeper conscience that was created by God.

正是在放弃幻想的过程中，你把自己带到了这个认知的时刻。在这里，你开始以真正的意图迈出通往内识的步骤。它不仅仅是为了提升你的生命，使你的生命更甜美，给你带来益处，使你在自己看来更有精神而做的一件美妙的事情。它在这里实际上是为了拯救你，救赎你，恢复你，更新你，让你在自己内心有更大的权威，有真正的诚信感。内识把你和你更深层面的良知连接在一起，不是你的社会良知，而是由上帝创造的更深层面的良知。

It is teaching spirituality at the level of Knowledge that is part of God’s New Revelation for the world. Though the teaching in Knowledge is present in all of the world’s religions, it has been lost and obscured by history and ritual and intellectual debate, adaptation to societies and the manipulation and use by governments.

它是在内识层面上的精神性的教导，是上帝对世界的新启示的一部分。尽管世界上所有的宗教都有内识方面的教导，但由于历史、仪式、知识辩论、对社会的适应以及政府的操纵和利用，它已经被丢失并模糊不清了。

Here The Way of Knowledge is plainly presented—purely, simply, directly. It is no longer obscure, but essential. For all religions are pathways to Knowledge because Knowledge is how God redeems you, and how you end the Separation within yourself, and between yourself and others, and between yourself and your Source.

在这里，内识之路被清晰地呈现出来——纯净的、简单的、直接的。它不再晦涩难懂，而是实质的。因为所有的宗教都是通往内识的途径，因为内识是上帝救赎你的方式，也是你结束自己内部、自己与他人、自己与源头之间的分离的方式。

This is a great journey. It is called by many names, but it is the great journey. It is the freedom journey. It is the most essential pursuit and the most essential relationship in life.

这是一段伟大的旅程。它被称为许多名字，但它是伟大的旅程。它是自由的旅程。它是生命中最根本的追求和最重要的关系。

Knowledge is your primary relationship because it is your connection to God. Here you connect to God not through belief or through fervent spiritual practice. You connect to God by following what God wants you to do and by receiving what God is giving you to restore and to redeem your life.

内识是你的主要关系，因为它是你与上帝的联系。在这里，你不是通过信念或狂热的精神实践来与上帝联系。你与上帝的联系是通过遵循上帝要你做的事，通过接收上帝给你的内识来恢复你和救赎你的生命。

Therefore, begin the journey. Take the Steps to Knowledge. Realize that you cannot find your way without this greater power and presence to guide you. Be patient, for the journey is long. Knowledge is mysterious. It does not come upon demand. It is not something you can control and manipulate. You must come into its presence in humility, with patience and openness, watching for the signs, and learning how to sincerely ask for guidance.

因此，开始旅程吧。开展通往内识的阶梯。认识到如果没有这种更伟大的力量和存在来引导你，你就无法找到自己的路。要有耐心，因为这段旅程很漫长。内识是神秘的。它不是应要求而来。它不是你可以控制和操纵的关系。你必须谦逊地进入它的存在，带着耐心和开放的态度，观察各种迹象，并学习如何真诚地请求指导。

All of this is based upon your self-awareness and your self-honesty. It is so essential. It is not complex. It is not elusive if you approach it honestly. It is foremost and essential in your life. And that is why it is the greatest and most essential relationship.

所有这些都是基于你的自我觉知和自我诚实。它是如此重要。它并不复杂。如果你诚实地对待它，它也不是难以捉摸的。它在你的生命中是最重要和必不可少的。这就是为什么它是最伟大和最根本的关系。

For God will guide you and protect you through Knowledge. God will redeem you and restore you through Knowledge. It is through Knowledge that you will discover over time your greater purpose for being in the world and those essential relationships that can make the expression and the fulfillment of this purpose possible.

因为上帝将通过内识引导你，保护你。上帝将通过内识救赎你，恢复你。正是通过内识，你将逐渐发现你存在于这个世界上的更伟大目的，以及那些能够使这个目的的表达和实现成为可能的必不可少的关系。