The Deeper Current of Your Life

As received by Marshall Vian Summers on April 23, 2008 in Shiraz, Iran
2008年4月23日，在伊朗设拉子(Shiraz, Iran)，向上帝的信使马歇尔・维安・萨默斯(Marshall Vian Summers)揭示

The power and the presence of Knowledge flows like a deep current within you, but can you feel it and know it?

内识的力量和存在就像你内心深处的潮流一样流淌，但你能感受到它、知道它吗？

It is like the water under the ground. The ground is arid desert. But there is fresh water flowing out of sight, out of mind, and yet it enables people to live in the most arid areas.

它就像地下的水。地面是干旱的沙漠。但有淡水流淌在视线之外，心灵之外，然而，它却能让人们在最干旱的地区生活。

It is like this, you see. The deeper current of your life is flowing, moving. It is not chaotic. It is not random. It is not meaningless. It is not disassociated from the Greater Power and Source of life.

你看，内识就像这样。你生命中更深层次的水流是流动的、移动的。它不是混乱的。它不是随机的。它不是毫无意义的。它并没有脱离更伟大的力量和生命之源。

Yet you live in like a desert. The ground is parched. It does not seem to be life giving, living on the surface, the surface of the world, where things are chaotic and clashing, where life and death are going through their relentless process—a process to which you try to give meaning, but which seems to have no inherent meaning at all, other than that it exists.

然而，你生活的地方就像一片沙漠。土地干枯。生活在这个世界的表面，这里的一切都是混乱而冲突，这里的生与死都在经历着无情的过程——你试图赋予这个过程以意义，但这个过程除了存在之外，似乎没有任何内在的意义。

This is the crisis of meaning for people. They are trying to give meaning to what seems to have no inherent meaning. They are trying to sanctify a life that has not yet been fulfilled or really discovered. No matter how intellectually brilliant they become in their discussions, in their ideas, in their views and theories, they are still living on the surface.

这就是人们的意义危机。他们试图赋予看似没有内在意义的事物以意义。他们试图将尚未实现或真正发现的生命神圣化。无论他们在讨论、思想、观点和理论中变得多么才华横溢，他们仍然生活在表面上。

This is not where the greater meaning resides. This is not where your life begins to have a real focus.

这并不是更伟大的意义所在。这并不是你的生命开始真正集中的地方。

You survive on the surface with varying degrees of success and failure. Even if you can acquire all things that you need from the world, it is still like a desert. It is a desert for the soul. Even if you live in splendor and have leisure and eat wonderful food and stay in wonderful places, your life is still empty, and that is why you seek constant stimulation and constant distraction.

你生存在表面上，成功和失败的程度各不相同。即使你能从这个世界上获得你所需要的一切，生命仍然像一片沙漠。它是心灵的沙漠。即使你过着奢华的生活，享受闲暇，品尝美食，居住在美好的地方，你的生命依然空虚，这也是为什么你不断寻求刺激和不断寻找分散注意力的原因。

You want to have a dynamic relationship with people and places and things, but you have not found yet the deeper current of your life. So even these things, even if they are marvelous, even if the people you meet are charming and fascinating, you cannot feel their essence. You cannot see beyond the surface.

你想与人、地方和事物建立一种动态关系，但你还没有找到你生命中更深层次的潮流。因此，即使这些事物再奇妙，即使你遇到的人再迷人，你也无法感受到他们的本质。你无法看到表面之外的内识。

Beauty is a distraction. Conflict is a distraction. The endless desire for people, places and things is a constant distraction—all drawing you out and away, searching the desert for meaning, searching the desert for the great river, a great river that you cannot find.

美丽是一种干扰。冲突是一种干扰。对人、地方和事物的无尽渴望是一种持续的干扰——所有这些都把你引向远方，在沙漠中寻找意义，在沙漠中寻找大河，一条你找不到的大河。

Yes, you find a well here and there, which gives evidence that there is water where there seems to be none, where there seems to be water where water does not seem to be able to exist, giving evidence that beneath the surface, there is a life-giving refreshment—a well here and there, a sacred place, a holy shrine, a place where people come to pray or give devotion, a place of deeper meaning, a place of mystery.

是的，你会在这里和那里找到一口井，证明在看似没有水的地方，水依然存在，在看似不可能存在水的地方，水却奇迹般地涌现，证明在表面之下，确实有一种赋予生命的滋润——这里和那里的一口井，一个神圣的地方，一个圣洁的圣地，一个人们来祈祷或奉献的地方，一个更深层次意义的地方，一个神秘的地方。

It is like a well, you see. You come there, and it is not simply a building with a lot of people gathered around, just another place—perhaps fascinating, perhaps historical, and many people gather there only for these reasons, you see. But really there is something else happening there. It is like a well in the desert, giving the evidence of life at a deeper level, at a more substantial level, at a more complete level.

你看，它就像一口井。你来到这里，它不仅仅是一座聚集了许多人的建筑，它只是另一个地方——你看，它也许很迷人，也许很有历史，许多人聚集在这里只是为了这些原因。但实际上这里还发生了一些其他的事情。它就像沙漠中的一口井，在更深层次、更实质性、更完整的层面上提供生命的证据。

How can you reach this deeper current of your life? How can you feel it and know it, to know its purpose and its direction, to know the clarity it will bring to your decisions and to your relationships? How will you know that it exists to guide you, to remind you, to empower you and to give you relief from the constant stress, the constant struggle for survival that exists on the surface all around you?

你如何才能触及你生命中这股更深层次的潮流？你如何才能感受到它并知道它，知道它的目的和方向，知道它将为你的决定和你的关系带来怎样的清晰度？你怎样才能知道它的存在是为了指引你、提醒你、赋予你力量，并让你摆脱周围表面上持续不断的压力和生存斗争？

How will you allow it to give you reprieve from your own inner conflicts, from your sense of failure, from your sense of guilt, from your sense of inadequacy, from the damage from the past, the regrets from the past, the failures from the past; from the influence of others whose opinions seem to have such great sway over you; and from your culture that tries to dominate your mind and your understanding through overt or subtle ways so that people think alike and act alike and have similar ideas within a very narrow range of variation?

你将如何让它使你从你自己的内心冲突、失败感、负罪感、不足感、过去的伤害、过去的遗憾、过去的失败中解脱出来；如何让它使你从他人的影响中解脱出来，因为他人的意见似乎对你具有极大的影响力；如何让它使你从你的文化中解脱出来，因为你的文化试图通过公开或隐晦的方式来支配你的心灵和理解，以便人们在非常狭窄的变化范围内思考、行动和拥有相似的想法？

What will give you reprieve from this? New relationships? More possessions? Visiting new and exciting places? Meet the person who has been all over the world, who has been to all the great monuments, who is like a living travelogue. Have they reached the deeper current of their life or are they merely addicted to more stimulation? New places to go, new people to meet, as if they are running from themselves all the time, trying to find something they cannot find, searching the desert for meaning because everyone is searching for meaning, you see. That is why they are searching.

什么能让你从这种状态中解脱出来？新的关系？更多的财产？参观新的令人兴奋的地方？去见见那些走遍世界、游遍所有名胜古迹、就像一本活生生的游记的人。他们是否已经到达了生命更深层次的潮流，还是仅仅沉迷于更多的刺激？去新的地方，结识新的人，你看，好像他们一直在逃避他们自己，试图找到他们找不到的内识，在沙漠中寻找意义，因为每个人都在寻找意义。这就是他们寻找的原因。

After they meet the requirements of life and they have certain resources from other people and the world, well, they are searching, restlessly, for the need of the soul has not been found. Even if they have acquired wealth and status in society, they are still searching.

当他们满足了生命的要求，从他人和世界那里获得了一定的资源之后，他们便开始不停地寻找，因为他们还没有找到灵魂的需求。即使他们在社会上获得了财富和地位，他们仍然在寻找。

And when they are no longer searching, well, their life is really over. Yes, they are breathing. Yes, they are going through the motions of being alive, but really, the light within them has died out. Perhaps there is a glow somewhere hidden, but it is so remote. It is so weak. It has been buried like a candle that has been taken underground.

当他们不再寻找时，他们的生命就真的结束了。是的，他们还在呼吸。是的，他们只是机械地过着活着的日子，但实际上，他们内心的光芒已经熄灭。也许在某处还隐藏着一丝光亮，但它是如此遥远。它是如此微弱。它被埋葬了，就像一根被带到地下的蜡烛。

For everyone else, there is a searching. Maybe the search is strong. Maybe it is weak. But they are looking for the deeper current of their life. They are still trying to find it through the surface—through relationships with people, places and things.

对于其他人来说，他们也在寻找。也许寻找是强烈的，也许是微弱的。但他们在寻找他们生命中更深层次的潮流。他们仍然试图通过表面——通过与人、地方和事物的关系——来寻找它。

But it is the search that is important, for it is a search that cannot be satisfied by these things. It is a search one must find within oneself. And it must be found within certain relationships that contain and express this deeper current of life—relationships that are distinguished from all other associations that you can have with other people.

但重要的是这种探索，因为这种探索无法被这些事情满足。这是一种必须在自身内部寻找的探索。它必须在特定的关系中找到，这些关系包含并表达了生命中更深层次的潮流——这些关系不同于你和其他人之间可能拥有的所有其他联系。

To begin to respond to this need, this search, you must become still, for you are listening to a deeper Knowledge, a deeper Mind within you. This Mind is the Mind that God has created within you, whereas your surface mind is the mind the world has created within you—two very different minds, two very different realities.

要开始回应这种需求、这种探索，你必须保持安静，因为你正在倾听你内心深处的一种更深层次的内识、一种更深层次的心灵。这个心灵是上帝在你内心深处创造的心灵，而你的表面心灵是世界在你内心创造的心灵——两个非常不同的心灵，两个非常不同的现实。

You know the surface mind, the worldly mind, the mind that has been conditioned by your physical nature and by all of your interactions with the world—by your ideas, your beliefs, your expectations, your condemnations, your views, your attitudes and so forth.

你知道表面的心灵，世俗的心灵，受到你的物质自然以及你与世界的所有互动——你的想法、你的信仰、你的期待、你的谴责、你的观点、你的态度等等——受条件限制的心灵。

But this deeper Mind you do not know—the Mind that God has created. You can pray to God and be religious. You can have very firm and well-considered religious views. But it does not mean that you have experienced the deeper current of your life. Perhaps you have had moments of illumination or have felt Grace, and these indeed are signs within themselves, but it does not mean that you are connected deeply or know deeply the deeper current of your life.

但你并不知道这个更深层次的心灵——上帝创造的心灵。你可以向上帝祈祷，也可以虔诚。你可以有非常坚定和深思熟虑的宗教观点。但这并不意味着你已经体验到了你生命中更深层次的潮流。也许你有过顿悟的时刻，或者感受到了恩典，这些确实是内在的迹象，但这并不意味着你与你生命中更深层次的潮流有着深刻的联接，或者深刻地知道它。

So appearing to be religious is not the answer. Appearing to have great faith or religious convictions is not the answer. It is the power and presence of Knowledge. It is the deeper current of your life, the Mind that God has given to guide you, to prepare you, to direct you towards a greater expression and awareness in the world.

因此，表现出虔诚并不是答案。表现出有伟大的信仰或宗教信念并不是答案。它是内识的力量和存在。它是你生命中更深层次的潮流，是上帝赋予你的心灵，用来指导你、准备你、引导你走向世界上的一种更伟大的表达和觉知。

To begin, then, to bring your attention and focus it beneath the surface, you must become still and observant. The New Message that God has sent into the world is one way that this can be accomplished. It is a way that has been given that does not include human contamination, cultural contamination or adaptation to religious views or ideologies and so forth. It is not based upon human psychology, for human psychology exists at the surface. This is a deeper psychology.

因此，要开始将你的注意力集中在表面之下，你就必须静下心来观察。上帝发送给世界的新讯息是实现这一点的一种方式。它是一种不包含人类污染、文化污染或适应宗教观点或意识形态等因素的道路。它不是基于人类心理学，因为人类心理学存在于表面。这是一种更深层次的心理学。

You become still and observant. You refrain from judgment in your times of practice. You leave the outside world and you listen. You do not listen for answers. You do not listen for what you listen for on the surface. You do not use this experience to answer questions on the surface or to fulfill expectations on the surface. Your whole approach to dealing with the world cannot be brought to this sacred environment within you that you are building brick by brick, tile by tile, stone by stone. It is like building a sanctuary, a holy site.

你变得安静而善于观察。在练习的时候，你不会做出评判。你离开外在的世界，静心倾听。你不是在倾听答案。也不是在听表面上所期待的事物。你不会用这种体验来回答表面上的问题，也不会用它来满足表面上的期望。你与世界打交道的全部方式都不能带到你内心的这个神圣环境中，你正在一砖一瓦、一石一瓦地建造这个神圣环境。它就像是在建造一个圣殿，一个圣地。

If you visit occasionally, well, you cannot experience it really. So you must come frequently, every day. Every day you listen, and you learn to take the Steps to Knowledge. God’s New Message for humanity shows how this can be done.

如果你偶尔来，那你就无法真正体验到它。因此，你必须经常来，每天都来。每天你都在聆听，学习如何开展内识的进阶。上帝给人类的新讯息展示了如何做到这一点。

But there are ancient traditions as well that are pathways to Knowledge—deeper, beneath the surface of the mind. But these ancient ways are hard to find and require great searching, and often those who can teach these paths live in other parts of the world. They are not public figures. They are not celebrated teachers. They are not people who come onto the television. Very hard to find they are. You may have to spend years searching for them.

但也有一些古老的传统，它们是通往内识的道路——更深层次的，在心灵的表层之下。但这些古老的方法很难找到，需要大量的搜寻，而且能够传授这些道路的人往往住在世界的其他地方。他们不是公众人物。他们不是著名的老师。他们不是电视上的人物。他们很难找到。你可能需要花费数年的时间去寻找他们。

So God has given a pathway, Steps to Knowledge, for the person as they are today, where they live today, in their current circumstances. And this method has the power to draw you in. It is mysterious. It is the attraction of God. You cannot understand it with your intellect. It is fruitless to try. You will just create a lot of big ideas that really do not mean anything anyway.

因此，上帝为今天的人们、他们今天所处的地方、他们目前所处的环境中提供了一条通往内识的道路，这条道路就是内识进阶。这种方法具有吸引你的力量。它是神秘的。它是上帝的吸引力。你无法用你的智力去理解它。尝试去理解是徒劳的。你只会创造出许多看似宏大的想法，但这些想法其实并没有什么实质意义。

So you begin your practice, building your inner sanctuary, focusing your life in a very different way for the times that you are practicing. And if you will proceed and build your practice, you will go deeper, and the evidence of Knowledge will begin to emerge even when you are out in the world. You will sense things and feel things and know things that are very important to guide you and to orient you. You will be less confused and less dazzled by the world. And the allurements of beauty and wealth, well, you will be able to see how shallow and thin they are, and how dangerous they are in leading people astray and wasting their lives.

因此，你要开始练习，建立你的内在圣殿，在练习的过程中以一种截然不同的方式专注于你的生命。如果你愿意继续并建立你的实践，你将走得更深，即使你在外面的世界，内识的证据也将开始浮现。你会感觉到一些事物，感受到一些事物，知道一些事物，这些事物对你的指导和定位非常重要。你会变得不那么困惑，不再被世界所迷惑。而美貌和财富的诱惑，嗯，你将能够看到它们是多么的肤浅和单薄，以及它们在将人们引入歧途和浪费生命方面是多么的危险。

This is the most important search in life—beyond surviving, beyond reaching adulthood, beyond having a trade or a position in society, beyond meeting whatever expectations are required of you by your family or your culture. This is the most important thing, for this is bringing your relationship with God into the world—at first, for your benefit, but really ultimately it is for the benefit of others. It is not a selfish pursuit. It is not a path of enlightenment where you spend your whole life trying to experience your relationship with God. It is not about that.

这是生命中最重要的探索——超越生存，超越成年，超越拥有一技之长或社会地位，超越满足家庭或文化对你的任何期望。这是最重要的事情，因为这将你与上帝的关系带入世界——起初是为了你自己的利益，但实际上最终是为了他人的利益。这不是一种自私的追求。这不是一条开悟之路，在这条路上，你将穷尽一生去体验你与上帝的关系。它与此无关。

Knowledge within you, the deeper Mind that God has given you, that is not its focus. If you think that is its purpose, about your own illumination, well, you will misunderstand. You will not understand what you are doing or why you are doing it or the signs and meaning of whatever progress you can make.

你内在的内识，上帝赋予你的更深层次的心灵，这不是它的焦点。如果你认为这就是它的目的，关于你自己的启迪，好吧，你将会错误理解。你将不会理解你在做什么，为什么要这样做，也不会理解你所取得的任何进步的迹象和意义。

You must build your sanctuary to Knowledge—to take time out every day, to find whatever quiet environment you can for this purpose. Unrelated it is to everything you are doing. Do not go into your sanctuary trying to get answers as if you were searching the newspaper for the news.

你必须建立你内识的圣殿——每天抽出时间，为此寻找任何你能找到的安静环境。这与你所做的一切都无关。不要像在报纸上寻找新闻一样，走进你的圣殿去寻找答案。

Knowledge will give you the signs. It will bring into your life the really important people for you. It will restrain you when you must be restrained. It will move you forward when you must be moved forward. And it will become your strength as you realize that Knowledge within you is not threatened by the world, is not impressed by the world, is not horrified by the world.

内识会给你迹象。它会把对你来说真正重要的人带进你的生命。它会在你必须克制的时候克制你。它会在你必须前进的时候推动你前进。当你意识到你内在的内识不会受到世界的威胁、不会被世界所打动、不会对世界感到恐惧时，它将成为你的力量。

Yet Knowledge is moving. It is not simply still. It is not simply just like the sun shining above the clouds. It is not just a state of mind. It is moving. It has a direction. It has a purpose, for you and for others. Just like the water under the ground, under the desert, is moving. If it was not moving, it would be stagnant and you could not drink it. It would become poisonous.

然而，内识是流动的。它不是简单的静止。它不是简单的像云层上方闪耀的太阳。它不只是一种心灵状态。它是流动的。它有方向。它有目的，为你，也为他人。就像沙漠地下的水在流动。如果水不流动，它就会停滞不前，你就无法饮用。它会变成有毒。

This deeper current is moving. It is carrying water from the mountains to the desert, from the mountains to the sea. It is governed by greater forces than the forces that you can see and touch. It is being driven by the movement of the planets, by gravitational forces.

这股更深层次的潮流正在流动。它将水从高山带到沙漠，从高山带到大海。它受到比你能看到和触摸到的更伟大的力量的管理。它受到行星运动和引力的驱动。

Just like Knowledge within you is being moved by the Will and the Power of God of the entire universe—not just some local deity, not just a god of the hill or the mountain, not just the god of the nation or the god of these peoples, the god of this little part of human history. My God. What is that? On the surface, it seems monumental, but in the universe, what is that? A grain of sand? A moment in time?

就像你内在的内识被整个宇宙的上帝意志和力量所推动一样——而不仅仅是某个地方的神，不仅仅是山丘或山脉的神，不仅仅是国家的神或这些民族的神，也不仅仅是人类历史这一小部分的神。我的上帝。这些神是什么？从表面上看，这些神似乎意义非凡，但在宇宙中，这些神又算得了什么呢？一粒沙子？时间中的一个瞬间？

You come to this sacred place to listen, to receive and to build the connection. You do not come to get things. This is very hard for people in the beginning because their whole orientation to life is getting things—getting money, getting recognition, winning favor with others, looking good, getting rewards, moving up the social ladder. And for many extremely poor people, it is just about finding the food and the water, the simple things that they need.

你来到这个神圣的地方是为了聆听、接收和建立联接。你不是为了得到东西而来。对于刚开始的人来说，这非常困难，因为他们生命的整个方向就是得到东西——得到金钱、得到认可、赢得他人的青睐、看起来不错、得到奖励、在社会的阶梯上更上一层楼。而对于许多极度贫困的人来说，他们所需要的仅仅是找到食物和水，以及他们需要的简单事物。

But here you come to give yourself, not to get more things. You come to yield, to listen, to become silent. You do not need to have a conversation with Knowledge. It does not happen like that. You come to pray, in a sense, because you are asking to be connected.

但在这里，你是来给予你自己的，而不是来获取更多东西的。你是来屈服的，是来倾听的，是来沉默的。你不需要与内识对话。事情不会这样发生。从某种意义上说，你是来祈祷的，因为你要求与之相连。

You do not come to ask for things for your friends and family. At this level, that is not appropriate. You can do that, and it can be valuable, but you are here to re-experience a fundamental relationship of your life, the most fundamental relationship of your life, the greatest relationship of all, the relationship that gives meaning and perspective and value to all your other relationships—to who you are, to who you are with, to who you are married to, to your place, to your country, to activities, to your work, to everything.

你不是来为你的朋友和家人索要东西的。在这个层面上，这样做并不合适。你可以这样做，而且这样做可能很有价值，但你来这里是为了重新体验你生命中的一个基本关系，你生命中最根本的关系，所有关系中最伟大的关系，这个关系赋予你所有其他关系以意义、视角和价值——与你是谁、你和谁在一起、你和谁结婚、与你的住所、与你的国家、与你的活动、与你的工作、与一切的关系。

You do not have to be in your sanctuary all of the time. But you must spend time there every day. The New Message says, well, 30 minutes twice a day is very good. Or if you can only come once, you come for a little longer. And you listen.

你不必一直待在你的圣殿里。但你必须每天花时间在那里。新讯息说，好吧，每天两次，每次30分钟就很好了。或者，如果你只能来一次，那就多待一会儿。然后，你要倾听。

Here you learn how to still the mind to get underneath the surface. It is not easy at first, and at times of turbulence in your life, it is not easy. But you come and you give it your effort. Occasionally, you experience profound depth within yourself. Other times, it seems like a struggle. So the New Message gives you some phrases to say, some words to say, some things to think about to help your mind become oriented to Knowledge within yourself.

在这里，你将学会如何静下心来，深入到表面之下。一开始这并不容易，在你生命动荡的时候，这并不容易。但你来了，并付出了努力。偶尔，你会体验到你自己内在的深刻深度。其他时候，它似乎是一种挣扎。因此，新讯息给了你一些可以说的短语、一些可以说的话、一些可以思考的事情，以帮助你的心灵转向你自己内在的内识。

It is like anything else, building skill. It seems strange and awkward and difficult at first, but you know, it was strange and awkward and difficult for you to learn how to read, or to write or to find your way through a city, but now you do it as if it is nothing. It comes natural to you. It was not natural at the beginning.

它就像培养技能一样。起初，它似乎很奇怪、很笨拙、很困难，但你知道，对你来说，学习如何阅读、写作或在城市中找路也很奇怪、很笨拙、很困难，但现在你做起来就像什么都没做一样。这对你来说很自然。开始的时候并不自然。

When being connected to Knowledge becomes natural to you, you will be a person who is a fountain of meaning and inspiration for others. Your counsel to them will be wise and pervasive, and in many cases you will see things for them they could never see, that they will need to see, that will make a great difference and that will remind them that there is a deeper current within their life as well.

当你和内识的联接对你来说变得自然时，你将成为他人意义和灵感的源泉。你对他们的忠告将是明智和全面的，在许多情况下，你将为他们看到他们永远看不到、他们需要看到的事情，这将带来伟大的改变，这将提醒他们，在他们的生命中也存在着一种更深层次的潮流。

Whatever you can do for another to feed them, to help them, to restore them, to assist them, to advise them, to care for them, your greater service to them is to speak to them, to direct them to the deeper current of their life. In the long run, this is the greatest gift. It has the greatest rewards. It is the most significant. To rescue people from the desolation of the desert of their lives, from the endless searching, from the desperate attempt to survive and to fulfill themselves, living in a state of Separation, to give them the gift of Knowledge, the gift of the Steps to Knowledge, well, you cannot even imagine from your current position how important this is. You are in a sense saving them—you are saving their lives.

无论你能为他人做些什么，为他们提供食物、帮助他们、恢复他们、协助他们、给他们建议、关心他们，你对他们的更伟大服务是与他们的交谈，指引他们走向生命更深层次的潮流。从长远来看，这是最伟大的礼物。它有最大的回报。它是最意义重大的。把人们从荒凉的生命沙漠中解救出来，从无休止的寻找中解救出来，从绝望的生存和实现自我中解救出来，从生活在分离状态中，给他们内识的礼物，内识进阶的礼物，嗯，从你现在的立场来看，你甚至无法想象这有多么重要。从某种意义上说，你是在拯救他们——你是在拯救他们的生命。

For rich or poor, you return to your Ancient Home, and well, either you made the connection or you did not. Either you gave the gifts you were sent here to give, or you did not. It is fundamental. Failure here just means you have to try again. What else can you do?

不论贫富，你都会回到你的古老家园，好吧，你要么建立了联接，要么你没有。你要么给了你被派到这里来给予的礼物，要么你没有。它是根本的。在这里失败只是意味着你必须再试一次。你还能做什么呢？

It is your will and purpose to do this. God created you to do this. If you cannot do it, well, your whole life was like just a meaningless exercise. You tried. You missed. It is okay. There is no blame. There is no punishment. But you will have to return and try again, and you know this. It is not forced labor. It is simply the natural flow of life. It is like the water moving from the mountain to the sea, well, that is what it does, governed by greater forces.

这就是你的意志和目的。上帝创造你就是为了让你做到这一点。如果你做不到，那么你的生命就像是一场毫无意义的练习。你尝试过。你错过了。没关系。没有责备。没有惩罚。但你必须回来再试一次，你知道这一点。这不是强迫劳动。这只是生命的自然流动。就像水从山上流向大海一样，在更强大的力量的支配下，水就是这样流动的。

So to do what is natural to you is to do what God gave you to do. And to experience the meaning of this and the great power and clarity and integrity it brings to your life, well, that is God’s great gift to you. But you must come and build a sanctuary. You must take this journey within yourself and build the skills that are necessary to do this. Otherwise, this sounds like an empty promise, a fantastic thing. But you are still living in the desert—thirsty, desolate, desperate, always busy, running around everywhere like an ant, searching for food, well, searching for something, without any real clear direction.

因此，做你自然而然要做的事，就是做上帝赋予你要做的事。体验其中的意义，体验它给你的生命带来的伟大力量、清晰性和完整性，这就是上帝给你的伟大礼物。但你必须来建造一个圣殿。你必须在你自己的内心踏上这段旅程，并掌握必要的技能来做到这一点。否则，这听起来就像是一个空洞的承诺，一件美妙的事情。但你仍然生活在沙漠中——渴求、荒凉、绝望，总是忙忙碌碌，像蚂蚁一样到处奔波，寻找食物，好吧，寻找一些东西，却没有任何真正明确的方向。

Knowledge within you knows why you are here. Only it knows. Your intellect does not know this. Your intellect is like an interpretation machine. It does not know the deeper current of your life. You can talk about the deeper current, you can even be a scholar of the deeper current, but if you cannot experience it, if it has not changed and altered your life, well, you are just a spectator. It is even more confusing and frustrating here because you recognize its value, but you cannot get to it. And it will be a source of disappointment and frustration for your whole life.

你内在的内识知道你为什么在这里。只有它知道。你的智力并不知道这一点。你的智力就像一台解读机器。它不知道你生命更深层次的潮流。你可以谈论更深层次的潮流，你甚至可以成为更深层次潮流的学者，但如果你不能体验它，如果它没有改变和转变你的生命，那么，你只是一个旁观者。在这里，你会感到更加困惑和沮丧，因为你认识到它的价值，但你无法触及它。它将是你整个生命失望和沮丧的一种来源。

You begin with stillness. You take the Steps to Knowledge. Only God knows how to take you to Knowledge, so you take the Steps that God has provided, either through the New Message that God has sent into the world or through the deeper, more mystical traditions that still exist in the world from the past.

你从静止开始。你开展内识的进阶。只有上帝知道如何带你走向内识，所以你要采取上帝提供的步骤，要么通过上帝发送给世界的新讯息，要么通过过去仍然存在于世界上的更深层次、更神秘的传统。

This is something beyond the realm of religion, as it exists at the surface. This is beyond the realm of theology, as it exists at the surface. That is the realm of ideas. This is the realm of Knowledge. For only God can be known. Only your true purpose can be known. Only your true relationships can be known. Your ideas about them are secondary and often a hindrance within themselves.

这超越了宗教的范畴，因为它存在于表面。这超越了神学的范畴，因为它存在于表面。那是想法的领域。这是内识的领域。因为只有上帝可以被知道。只有你的真实目的可以被知道。只有你真实的关系可以被知道。你对它们的想法都是次要的，而且往往它们自身就是一种阻碍。

You come to Knowledge because you feel the need of the soul, because it is the deepest need, the most profound need, the need that cannot be satisfied by anything else, the need that turns you off the highway of life into a deeper search, where other people seem to have no interest, have no orientation. It sets you apart because it is a calling. A calling is what calls you out of your circumstances, out of your life at the surface, as you have known it.

你来到内识，是因为你感受到了灵魂的需求，因为这是最深层次的需求，最深刻的需求，是任何其他事物都无法满足的需求，是让你离开生命的高速公路，进入更深层次探索的需求，而其他人似乎对此不感兴趣，也没有方向。它让你与众不同，因为它是一种召唤。召唤就是呼唤你走出你所处的境遇，走出你所熟知的表面生命。

This, then, is your greatest opportunity. You will take this journey because of the deeper need—not because of a promise of Heaven, or pleasing God, or paradise. That is all for people living at the surface. That is the addiction of ideas.

那么，这就是你最伟大的机会。你将因为更深层次的需求而踏上这段旅程——而不是因为天国的承诺，或取悦上帝，或天堂。这些都是为生活在表面的人们准备的。这是对想法的沉迷。

This is the natural movement, the movement of the heart and the soul. You come here because you know and you feel there is a deeper well, a deeper current of water beneath the surface. While others are looking for the fabled river of life on the surface, you are going to begin to sink a tap, to drill down beneath the surface, for the water is right under your feet.

这是自然的运动，是心和灵魂的运动。你来到这里是因为你知道并且感觉到在地表之下有一口更深层次的井，一股更深层次的水流。当其他人在地表上寻找传说中的生命之河时，你将开始打井，钻入地下，因为水就在你的脚下。