Escaping Fear, Confusion and Hopelessness

As received by Marshall Vian Summers on June 25, 2008 in Boulder, Colorado
2008年6月25日，在科罗拉多州博尔德(Boulder, Colorado)，向上帝的信使马歇尔・维安・萨默斯(Marshall Vian Summers)揭示

If one is really honest with oneself, one must realize that the world is changing and that Great Waves of change are coming to the world. This is more of a feeling within oneself: a sense of apprehension, a sense of anxiety, a feeling that one must prepare for something, even if one does not know what it is specifically.

如果一个人真的对自己诚实，他必须意识到世界正在改变，变革的巨浪正在向世界袭来。这更多的是一种内心的感觉：一种忧虑感、一种焦虑感，一种必须为某事做好准备的感觉，即使他不知道具体是什么。

For there are Great Waves of change coming to the world—great environmental changes, the diminishing of resources, growing economic instability and the ever-increasing risk of competition, conflict and war over the remaining resources.

因为世界正面临着变革的巨浪——环境的巨大变化、资源的日益减少、经济的日益不稳定以及为争夺剩余资源而发生竞争、冲突和战争的风险不断增加。

Perhaps you have recognized some or all of these phenomena. Perhaps you have a deeper feeling within yourself of apprehension, of concern, of uncertainty, a growing uncertainty over whether things are really going to be all right. There is the appearance of normalcy, of course, but the feeling of change is pervasive.

也许你已经认识到了这些现象中的一些或全部。也许你自己的内心深处有一种忧虑、担忧、不确定的感觉，对事情是否真的会好起来越来越不确定。当然，表面上看一切正常，但变化的感觉无处不在。

If you stop to ask yourself: “How do I really feel about the condition of the world?” or “How do I really feel about the condition of my country and the welfare of the people?” you will evoke perhaps a different response than merely trying to assume that everything will be fine and that the change at hand is merely a fluctuation or a minor disruption and that life will return to normal as soon as these problems pass over, as if they were clouds just passing over the land, where you just need to weather the storm, a brief but difficult storm.

如果你停下来问你自己：“我对世界状况的真实感受是什么？”或“我对我的国家的状况和人民的福祉的真实感受是什么？”你也许会得到一种不同的回应，而不是仅仅试图假设一切都会好起来，眼前的变化只是一种波动或轻微的干扰，一旦这些问题过去，生命将返回正常，就好像它们只是掠过这片土地的乌云，你只需要度过这场短暂但艰难的风暴。

Yet what gives rise to a deeper sense of apprehension is not a brief disruption, is not an inconvenience. It is something far deeper and greater, whose impacts are far reaching. This is what gives rise to a deeper concern and sense of apprehension.

然而，真正引发更深层次不安的并不是短暂的干扰，也不是不便。它是更深层次、更伟大的内识，其影响深远。内识才是引起更深层次的担忧和不安的原因。

It is important here not to dismiss these feelings, for they are signs within yourself that you are responding to something greater in the world even if you have not recognized fully what it is that is generating this response within you.

在这里，重要的是不要忽视这些感觉，因为它们是你自己内心的迹象，表明你正在对世界上更伟大的某事做出回应，即使你还没有完全认识到是什么在你内心产生了这种回应。

For at this moment, the world is giving you signs, and Knowledge within yourself—the deeper Intelligence that God has created and put there for you—is also giving you signs. The signs are not merely forms of encouragement, or affirmation, or confirmation of your ideas, beliefs and expectations. More often than not, they are warning signs—alerting you to the presence of danger, or indicating some change in your understanding or activities.

因为此时此刻，世界正在向你发出信号，而你自己内在的内识——上帝为你创造并放置在内心深处的更深层次的智能——也在给你信号。这些迹象并不仅仅是鼓励、肯定或确认你的想法、信仰和期望的形式。更多的时候，它们是警告信号——提醒你危险的存在，或者表明你在理解或活动上的某种变化。

It is as if you had an early warning system within yourself, giving you signs and clues that you must pay attention to something, that you must respond to something, that you must recognize something that previously you had not recognized. This early warning system is vitally important for you and should never be construed as merely being fearful or negativity on your part. It is part of the greater Intelligence that God has put within you to warn you of the presence of danger, or to alert you to a need, to give your attention to a specific thing or a set of difficulties.

它就好像你的内心有一个预警系统，向你发出信号和提示，告诉你必须注意某些事情，必须对某些事情做出反应，必须认识到某些你以前没有认识到的事情。这个预警系统对你来说至关重要，千万不要把它仅仅理解为你的恐惧或消极。它是上帝放置在你的内心更伟大智能的一部分，它警告你危险的存在，或提醒你的需要，让你关注一件具体的事情或一系列困难。

Look at nature. The animals in the field are always looking about themselves to check their environment, to see if there is any risk or danger there. Why is it that they would show such caution and not you yourself? Wisdom would instruct you to always be watchful and alert and present to your surroundings.

观察自然。野外的动物总是四处张望，检查他们自己所处的环境，看看是否存在任何风险或危险。为什么它们会表现得如此谨慎，而你自己却不会呢？智慧会告诉你，要时刻保持警惕，警觉地观察周围的环境。

Every moment of every day people are making critical mistakes, or having terrible accidents, or overlooking important opportunities because they are not paying attention to their environment. They are not paying attention to their deeper inclinations, which are alerting them, encouraging them, or in some cases holding them back. This lack of attention then is a critical problem and is the source of the vast majority of mistakes and errors, and even catastrophic errors, that people make.

每天的每一刻，人们都在因为没有注意到他们的环境而犯下严重的错误，或遭遇可怕的事故，或错过重要的机会。他们没有关注他们更深层次的倾向，这些倾向正在提醒他们、鼓励他们，或在某些情况下阻止他们。这种缺乏关注是一个严重的问题，也是人们所犯大多数错误甚至灾难性错误的根源。

Do not think that to be so careful and to be so observant is to be acting in a state of fear. It is really functioning in a state of wisdom. For the wise man or woman is always careful to discern their environment, to listen more deeply for the motives and intentions of other people, to check themselves in making conclusions and in approaching decisions very carefully, seeking verification from others whom they trust.

不要认为如此小心谨慎和如此观察入微是出于恐惧的状态。它实际上是在智慧的状态中运作。因为明智的男女总是小心谨慎地辨别他们的环境，更深入地倾听他人的动机和意图，在得出结论和做出决定时非常小心，并从他们信任的人那里寻求验证。

It is this care and caution that represent wisdom. It is not fearfulness. This wisdom is born out of the recognition that the world has many hazards and many opportunities, and one must be observant and present to see them both. To be reckless and inattentive is to put oneself in jeopardy and also to miss the critical signs, the critical opportunities, that life is giving you so very frequently.

这种小心谨慎代表着智慧，而不是恐惧。这种智慧源于这样的承认：这个世界有许多危险和许多机会，一个人必须细心观察并活在当下才能看到它们。鲁莽和疏忽不仅会让自己陷入危险，还会错过生命中经常出现的关键迹象和关键机会。

Therefore, to be cautious and observant is really to be intelligent, and to show a lack of awareness and a lack of caution demonstrates a lack of intelligence. For what is intelligence but the willingness and ability to learn and to adapt? Real intelligence creates the desire to learn, to be fully engaged with life, to be watchful, to be discerning, to refrain from premature judgment or conclusions, to give your attention fully to things in front of you, to listen carefully to other people to discern their motives and intentions and the real communication that they are attempting to give through their words and through their actions. Intelligence is not simply being clever or solving complex problems. Intelligence is the willingness and ability to learn and to adapt.

因此，谨慎和观察实际上是聪慧的表现，而缺乏觉知和缺乏谨慎则表明缺乏智能。因为什么是智能？智能就是学习和适应的意愿与能力。真正的智能会激发学习的欲望，全面投入生命，保持警觉，具备辨别力，避免过早的判断或结论，专注于眼前的事物，仔细聆听他人，以辨别他们的动机和意图，以及他们试图通过言语和行动传达的真正沟通。智能不仅仅是聪明或解决复杂问题的能力，智能是学习和适应的意愿与能力。

Life is a constantly changing situation, presenting both hazards and opportunities. To not be fully present to that is to not be present to oneself, is to be functioning in a way where you are disengaged or distracted from this primary engagement with life. In that situation, you cannot bring your greater powers of mind to bear. You cannot use the greater Intelligence of Knowledge that God has provided you, and you will miss the signs of the world and even the signs from Knowledge itself—guiding you, telling you, instructing you, encouraging you, setting you forward or holding you back, depending upon the situation at hand.

生命是一个不断变化的局面，既有危险也有机会。如果不完全地在场，就是不完全地与自己相处，这意味着以一种方式运作，使你脱离或分心于与生命的这种主要参与。在这种情况下，你就无法发挥你更伟大的心灵力量，你就无法使用上帝为你提供的更伟大的内识智能，你将错过世界的迹象，甚至错过来自内识本身的迹象——它在指导你、告诉你、教导你、鼓励你、推动你前行或在某些情况下让你保持后退，具体取决于眼前的情况。

It is this lack of attention, then, that disables you from gaining the full benefit of being in the world and from utilizing this greater Intelligence of Knowledge, and in fact from utilizing all of your skills, all of your levels of sensitivity. It denies your creativity and your ability to bring new ideas or understanding, new creations into the world.

正是这种注意力的缺乏，使你无法充分体验处于这个世界的益处，也无法善用这种更伟大的内识智能，事实上也无法善用你所有的技能、所有的敏感度。它剥夺了你的创造力，阻止你将新的想法、理解和创造带入这个世界。

For if you cannot respond to the world, then you will not respond even to your creativity. It is as if a fog has come over your mind, or you have drawn a curtain between yourself and everyone and everything else. And the only way you cannot be present to the world is to be obsessed with your thoughts and fantasies, or the thoughts and fantasies of others.

因为如果你无法回应世界，那么你甚至不会对你的创造力做出回应。它就好像你的心灵中笼罩着一层迷雾，或者你在你自己与每个人、其他一切事物之间拉上了一道帷幕。而你无法面对世界的唯一方式，就是沉迷于你的想法和幻想，或者他人的想法和幻想。

Your intellect is a wonderful tool, a tool of communication in the world, and that is its ultimate purpose. But the mind that does not have this purpose, that is not guided by Spirit, or Knowledge, becomes within itself a form of obsession—pulling you in, engaging you endlessly in self-debate, self-doubt, the projection of one’s desires, or the nightmare of one’s fears.

你的智力是一个奇妙的工具，是与世界沟通的工具，而这才是它的最终目的。但是，如果心灵没有这个目的，没有精神或内识的指导，心灵就会在它自身之内变成一种执念——把你拉进去，让你无休止地陷入自我辩论、自我怀疑、欲望的投射或恐惧的噩梦中。

It is a great tool here that has not been used properly, that is not being applied correctly, that has no governance because ultimately it is your body that must serve your mind, and your mind that must serve your Spirit. Without this service, the vehicle of the body and the vehicle of the mind become reckless, become problematic and become dominating, dominating problems.

在这里，心灵是一个伟大的工具，但它没有得到适当的使用，没有得到正确的应用，没有得到治理，因为归根结底，你的身体必须服务于你的心灵，而你的心灵必须服务于你的精神。没有这种服务，身体的载体和心灵的载体就会变得肆无忌惮，变得有问题，并且变得支配性，出现主导性问题。

When you are out in the world, you must really pay attention. Do not be listening to your music when you are walking about. Watch. Listen. Deepen and cultivate your seeing, your hearing, your touching. Do not be consumed in your thoughts, your problems, your memories or your concern for the future. This is being present. This is being alive. This is really being intelligent.

当你在外面的世界时，你必须实际地集中注意力。走路时不要听音乐。观察。聆听。深化和培养你的视觉、听觉和触觉。不要沉迷于你的想法、问题、记忆或对未来的担忧。这就是存在（在场）。这就是活着。这就是实际存在的聪慧。

You do not need a great education in the usual sense to be intelligent, but you do need to be observant. And you do need to learn to gain wisdom from your experience and from the experience of others. It is utilizing the presence of Knowledge, which already exists within you, and it is gaining worldly wisdom that represents the evolution of intelligence—both within yourself as an individual and for all of humanity.

你不需要通常意义上的良好教育才能变得聪慧，但你确实需要善于观察。你也需要学会从你的经验和他人的经验中获得智慧。它是善用内识的存在，内识已经存在于你的内心，使用内识获得世间的智慧，代表了智慧的进化——既包括你作为一个个体的智慧，也包括全人类的智慧。

Whereas people have particular views and come to particular conclusions, Knowledge and wisdom both have a universal resonance about them. People may disagree on how to fix something, or how to interpret something. They may disagree about their ideas about what is correct human behavior or how governments should be formed, or how commerce should be undertaken. There is a great variety of opinion here, a great range of interpretation.

尽管人们有特定的观点并得出特定的结论，但内识和智慧都具有普遍的共鸣。人们可能会在如何解决某个问题或如何解释某个问题上产生分歧。他们可能会对什么是正确的人类行为、政府应该如何组建、商业应该如何开展等问题持有不同看法。这里存在着各种各样的观点和各种各样的解释。

But real wisdom is something that people can share readily with one another, and the experience of Knowledge is something that unites people. For there is no your Knowledge and my Knowledge. There may be your interpretation of Knowledge and my interpretation, or the range of your experience and the range of my experience. But Knowledge itself is one. That is why it is a great peacemaker in the world. That is why it is a medium through which people recognize each other, resonate with each other and find meaningful action in relationship with each other.

但真正的智慧是人们可以随时相互分享的，内识的经验是将人们团结在一起的东西。因为没有你的内识和我的内识之分。可能有你对内识的解释和我对内识的解释，也可能有你的经验范围和我的经验范围。但内识本身是一体的。这就是为什么它是世界上伟大的和平缔造者。正因如此，内识是一种媒介，人们通过它相互认识，相互共鸣，并在相互关系中找到有意义的行动。

What is fear? Fear is a rejection of reality. It is a projection of one’s own inability to function successfully in life. It is the result of living without the guidance of Knowledge and without accumulating sufficient wisdom.

恐惧是什么？恐惧是对现实的拒绝。它是一个人在自己的生命中无法成功运作的投射。它是在没有内识指导和没有积累足够智慧的情况下生活的结果。

There is fear in the moment in the face of real danger. That is normal. But most of the fear that consumes people is a product of their imagination. They are dying a thousand times in their imagination. They are imagining all kinds of terrible possibilities, things that could happen to them or to others, to their loved ones, or to the whole world. They are living their own nightmare, but it is a nightmare of imagination.

在面对真正的危险时，人们会感到恐惧。这是正常的。但人们所恐惧的大部分是他们想象的产物。他们在想象中无数次地死去。他们想象着各种可怕的可能性，这些事情可能发生在他们身上、他人身上、他们所爱的人身上或整个世界身上。他们生活在他们自己的噩梦中，但它只是一种想象的噩梦。

It is the result of being disconnected from life and from the deeper Knowledge that God has placed within you. Without this greater certainty and without this greater engagement with the world, now you are alone. Now you feel vulnerable. Now you lack certainty. Now you are feeling stressed because you do not know what to do and you have not built a foundation within yourself upon which you can rely, a foundation of self-reliance, a trust in Knowledge within yourself and with it the ability to be fully engaged in the world.

它是脱离生命的结果，也是脱离上帝放置在你内心深处的更深层次内识的结果。没有这种更伟大的确定性，没有这种与世界的更伟大参与，现在你是独自一人的。现在，你感到脆弱。现在你缺乏确定性。现在你感到压力，因为你不知道该做什么，你还没有在你自己的内心建立起一个可以依靠的基础、一个自力更生的基础、一个对你内在内识的信任以及由此充分参与世界的能力。

People who are fooling around a lot, not being attentive, not paying attention, carried away in their own streams of imagination and self-concern, are ill prepared to deal with the realities of the world and are certainly ill prepared to deal with the Great Waves of change or with the reality that humanity is now in contact with intelligent races from the universe.

那些总是胡闹、不留心、不关注、沉迷于他们自己的想象和自我关注的人，没有做好应对世界现实的充分准备，显然也没有做好应对变革的巨浪，或人类如今正在与来自宇宙的智能种族接触的现实的充分准备。

This inability, then, to be present, to learn from life, to recognize life’s hazards and to learn from its teachings and opportunities, this represents a great handicap. And within this handicap there is endless fear and apprehension, but not apprehension that comes from Knowledge, but more apprehension that comes from one’s own weakness and lack of discernment, lack of experience and lack of self-confidence.

因此，这种无法亲临现场、无法从生命中学习、无法认识到生命的危险、无法从生命的教导和机会中学习的能力，这代表着一种巨大的障碍。而在这个障碍中，存在着无尽的恐惧和忧虑，但这种忧虑并非来自内识，更多的是来自一个人自身的弱点和缺乏辨别力、缺乏经验和缺乏自信的忧虑。

If you have not yet built a sufficient foundation of strength within yourself—strength representing your connection to Knowledge and the building of worldly wisdom within yourself, strength built from having meaningful engagements with other people—then you will look at life with trepidation, and you will feel trepidation because you are not yet able to deal with reality. Having given yourself so much to fantasy, having allowed your mind and imagination to be captured by the imaginations of others, your real ability to be in the world and to navigate the ever-changing conditions of the world is undeveloped. And without skill, you will feel helpless.

如果你还没有在你自己的内心建立起足够的力量基础——这种力量代表着你与内识的联接，代表着你在你自己内心建立起的世俗智慧，代表着你在与他人进行有意义的交往中建立起的力量——那么你就会带着惶恐的心情看待生命，你会感到惶恐不安，因为你还无法面对现实。你把你自己交给了太多的幻想，让你的心灵和想象被他人的想象所俘获，你身处世界、驾驭世界不断变化的状况的真正能力还没有发展起来。没有技能，你将感到无助。

The only way to really avoid fear and all of its dark manifestations is to build your connection to Knowledge and begin to assemble your worldly wisdom, and distinguish them from your beliefs, your wishes, your fears, your political ideology, your religious ideology, your attitudes, your prejudices and so forth. This involves real work and effort on one’s own behalf, real inner work to gain a greater control over your mind and to utilize it for a greater purpose rather than simply being a slave to all of its fantasies and all of its nightmares. It represents one taking power within one’s life instead of floating along in a sea of assumptions, drifting in one’s own imagination.

真正避免恐惧及其所有黑暗表现的唯一方法是建立你与内识的联接，开始汇聚你的世俗智慧，并将它们与你的信仰、你的愿望、你的恐惧、你的政治意识形态、你的宗教意识形态、你的态度、你的偏见等等区分开来。这涉及到一个人自身的真正工作和努力，真正的内在工作，以便更好地控制你的心灵，并将其用于更伟大的目的，而不是简单地成为其所有幻想和所有噩梦的奴隶。它代表着一个人在自己的生命中获得力量，而不是在假设的海洋中漂浮，一个人在自己的想象中漂泊。

Imagination itself is very valuable if it is guided by Knowledge within you. Your intellect is tremendously valuable if it is guided by Knowledge within you. But without this guidance, these things become errant. They are out of control, and they generate hazards and self-obsession.

如果你的想象力能得到内识的引导，那么想象力本身就是非常有价值的。如果你的智力受到内在内识的引导，它就会非常有价值。但如果没有这种指导，这些东西就会变得不正常。它们会失去控制，并产生危险和自我痴迷。

The world is teaching you what is coming over the horizon. It is showing you through demonstration all of the errors that people are making. It is showing you through demonstration all of the ways that people are successfully engaging with the world. It is showing you by demonstration what real contribution to the world looks like and how it can be experienced. The world is showing you every form of human error and misinterpretation.

这个世界正在教你地平线上即将到来的事情。它通过示范向你展示人们正在犯下的所有错误。它通过示范向你展示了人们成功与世界互动的所有方式。它正在通过示范向你展示对世界的真正贡献是什么样子，以及如何体验这种贡献。世界正在向你展示人类的各种错误和误解（错误解释）。

But to gain this great education from the world, you must look with clear eyes. You must look without drawing early conclusions. You must live with questions instead of always seeking for answers. You must be present to life instead of just present to your own ideas.

但是，要从这个世界获得这种伟大的教育，你必须用清晰的眼睛去看。你必须在看的时候不过早下结论。你必须带着问题生活，而不是一味地寻求答案。你必须在生命中在场，而不是只活在你自己的想法中。

Taking a beginner’s approach here is very helpful because a beginner makes few assumptions about his or her own learning or accomplishments and is present to learn through experience and through demonstration what is most valuable, and to distinguish what is valuable from what is not valuable.

在这里，采取初学者的方法是非常有帮助的，因为初学者很少对他/她自己的学习或成就做出假设，而是通过经验和示范来学习什么是最有价值的，并区分什么是有价值的，什么是没有价值的。

Because fear is the result of not being present to the world and not experiencing one’s connection to Knowledge, the deeper Mind, then the antidote to fear is to become present to the world and to take the Steps to Knowledge within oneself.

因为恐惧是源于存在没有在场世界，没有体验一个人与内识——更深层次的心灵——联接的结果，因此，对抗恐惧的解药就是全身心地在场于这个世界，并且在自己内心开展内识的进阶。

The closer you are to Knowledge, the more you can gain objectivity and the less you are swayed by the fantasies of hope or the nightmares of despair. You have found a way to be with the world that is clear and discerning and compassionate. You are able to look and see because you are not so afraid. You are able to face yourself and your own problems because you are not so afraid. You are able to look out on the horizon of life to see what is coming over the horizon because you are not so afraid. You are able to find the truth within yourself and to distinguish it from everything that is untrue because you are not so afraid.

你越接近内识，你就越能获得客观性，你就越不受希望的幻想或绝望的噩梦所左右。你找到了一种与世界相处的方式，这种方式清晰、明辨和富有同情心。你能够观察和看清，因为你不再害怕。你能够面对你自己和你自己的问题，因为你不再害怕。你能够看向生命的地平线，看清地平线上即将发生的事情，因为你不再害怕。你能够在你自己内在找到真理，并把它与一切不真实的事物区分开来，因为你不再害怕。

It is this willingness and ability to adapt and to learn that gains such strength within you, that gives you this kind of objectivity and this freedom from fearful imagination and from the seductions of fantasy. It is a clarity, but it is a clarity that rewards you. It frees you from self-doubt. It frees you from self-repudiation. It enables you to look at the world with clear eyes to discern its meaning, its value and its difficulties.

正是这种适应和学习的意愿和能力，在你内心中获得如此强大的力量，使你具有了这种客观性，使你摆脱了恐惧的想象和幻想的诱惑。这是一种清晰性，但这种清晰会给你带来回报。它让你摆脱自我怀疑。它让你摆脱自我否定。它使你能够用一双清澈的眼睛看待世界，辨别世界的意义、价值和困难。

In this way, you are able to navigate not only the changing circumstances of your life, but greater waves of change that are coming to the world, which will produce ever greater degrees of instability and uncertainty in all nations of the world, even the wealthy nations.

通过这种方式，你不仅能够驾驭你生命中不断变化的环境，而且能够驾驭即将到来世界的变革巨浪，这些变革巨浪将导致世界各国，甚至包括富裕国家，出现更大程度的不稳定和不确定性。

How are you going to know what to do in the face of this? How are you going to know what to do when circumstances change, when you have to make difficult decisions in the moment, when you have to rely upon Knowledge within yourself instead of simply following the edicts or the predictions of people in positions of authority?

你如何知道在面对这一切时该做什么？当环境发生变化时，你如何知道该做什么？当你必须在当下做出艰难的决定时，如何知道该做什么？当你必须依靠你自己内在的内识，而不是仅仅听从那些拥有权威地位的人们的命令或预测时，你如何知道去做什么？

You must assume a greater responsibility for your life. That is fundamental. This, then, gives the encouragement that one needs and the commitment one needs to bring oneself fully into the moment and to discern one’s assets and one’s liabilities, the strength of one’s relationships, the strength of one’s connection to Knowledge, the appropriateness of one’s own circumstances.

你必须为你的生命承担更伟大的责任。这是基础。因此，这给了一个人所需要的鼓励和承诺，让他能够带自己完全投入当下，辨别一个人的资产和负债、一个人的关系强度、一个人与内识联接的强度以及一个人自身环境的适当性。

Are you in the right place with the right people doing the right thing? Are your relationships encouraging you or discouraging you? Are they bringing you closer to reality or are they taking you away? For there are no neutral relationships. They are either helping you or hindering you in finding and building your strength, cultivating your wisdom.

你是否在正确的地点，与正确的人做正确的事？你的人际关系是鼓励你还是阻碍你？它们是在拉近你与现实的距离，还是在把你带离现实？因为没有中立的关系。它们要么在帮助你，要么在阻碍你找到和建立你的力量，培养你的智慧。

In a world facing the Great Waves of change, these things now become ever more important. If you are idly sitting on the sidelines of life, preoccupied with television or movies, living out someone else’s imagination, disconnected from the events of the day, unaware of the great changes that are building in the world, then you are putting yourself in a position of extreme powerlessness and vulnerability.

在一个正面临变革巨浪的世界中，这些事情现在变得比以往任何时候都重要。如果你无所事事地置身事外，专注于电视或电影，活在他人的想象中，与时事脱节，对世界上正在发生的巨大变化毫不知情，那么你就把你自己置于极端无能为力和脆弱的境地。

As a result of this lack of awareness and preparation, you will feel immensely afraid. And as the Great Waves build, your fear will escalate. You will feel hopeless and helpless and be prone to panic and to making very bad decisions or to following others who are making very bad decisions.

由于缺乏觉知和准备，你会感到无比恐惧。随着巨浪的加剧，你的恐惧也会不断升级。你会感到绝望和无助，容易惊慌失措，做出非常糟糕的决定，或者跟随那些做出非常糟糕决定的人。

God has put a greater Intelligence within you to guide you and to protect you, but you must gain access to it. You must listen to it and learn from it and refrain from making self-comforting assumptions about life and about your future.

上帝已经把一个更伟大的智能放置在你的内在来指引你、保护你，但你必须进入它。你必须倾听它、向它学习，避免对生命和你的未来做出自我安慰的假设。

Do not think that everything will work out fine. Everything will work out, but perhaps it will not be fine. Do not think that God will take care of things in the world, for God has sent you to take care of things in the world. Do not think that everything happens for a good purpose, for things just happen, and yet they can be used for a good purpose. Do not think you are at the right time and the right place with the right people, for this is a false assumption. You may be in the wrong place with the wrong people doing the wrong thing, and that is actually very common for people around you. Do not think that all fear is bad, for there is fear that is born of caution, the recognition of real danger, requiring a serious and wise response.

不要认为一切都会顺利解决。一切都会好起来的，但也许并不会完全顺利。不要认为上帝会照顾这个世界上的一切，因为上帝已将你派来照顾这个世界的事务。不要认为一切都是为了一个好的目的发生的，因为事情只是发生了，但它们可以被用来服务于一个好的目的。不要认为你处在正确的时间、正确的地方，和正确的人在一起，因为这是一种错误的假设。你可能处在错误的地方，和错误的人一起做着错误的事情，而这对你周围的人来说其实是很常见的。不要认为所有的恐惧都是坏的，因为有一种恐惧是源自谨慎，是对真正危险的认知，需要一种严肃而明智的回应。

Learn about the Great Waves of change, and look out into the world with as much objectivity and courage that you can muster. Gain over time the strength to do this—looking every day, contemplating every day, seeing what change you must bring to your life and circumstances, avoiding complacency and ambivalence—these two plaguing maladies of the human mind. Avoid assuming either self-defeat or self-success, and venture into life without these false assurances or predictions. Face difficulty with the power of Knowledge within yourself. And serve others, not because the outcome is guaranteed or assured, but because the service is needed, and it is correct for you to provide it.

了解变革的巨浪，用你所能鼓起的尽可能多的客观性和勇气看向世界。随着时间的推移，积累起做到这一点的力量——每天观察，每天沉思，看看你必须给你的生命和境况带来什么改变，避免自满和矛盾——这两种困扰人类心灵的疾病。避免假设自我失败或自我成功，在没有这些虚假保证或预测的情况下冒险进入生命。用你内在内识的力量面对困难。为他人服务，不是因为结果有保障或保证，而是因为需要这种服务，而且你提供这种服务是正确的。

Fear is easy. It is easy to become fearful, to fall into the pit of fear or despair. It is easy to feel helpless and hopeless. It is a lazy response to life and to one’s circumstances. It is more difficult to face the challenges and to meet the difficulties on the road of life, to examine everything that must be examined, to fix or repair the things that must be fixed or repaired, to face your weakness and know that you must become stronger. Do not give in to the dark path of acquiescence or self-assumption, or hopelessness and despair.

恐惧是容易的。变得恐惧，陷入恐惧或绝望的深渊是容易的。感到无助和绝望是容易的。这是一种对生命和自己处境的懒惰回应。面对挑战，迎接生命道路上的困难，审视一切必须审视的事物，修复或纠正必须修复或纠正的事情，面对你的弱点，并知道你必须变得更强大，这些都更为困难。不要屈服于顺从或自我假设的黑暗道路，也不要陷入绝望与无望之中。

In the face of the Great Waves of change, and indeed in the face of Intervention from races from beyond the world, people will become immensely afraid and will fall into despair. They will do this automatically because they have no foundation to face life with strength and objectivity.

事实上，面对变革的巨浪，面对来自世界之外种族的干预，人们将变得极度恐惧，并将陷入绝望。他们将自动这样做，因为他们没有基础以力量和客观性面对生命。

Instead of facing the situation and asking, “What must I do?” and then considering what they must do, they will simply fall apart. Or their hope will evaporate as if it were a phantom. They will fall from self-assurance into the pit of despair as if they were falling out of a building. They do not have the strength or the foundation within themselves or the connection to Knowledge to face an unanticipated situation, an unexpected event. They will go into denial, and they will turn away, not because they are facing something that is unreal, but because they do not have the strength to face it. They cannot handle it. They cannot handle it because they do not have the strength, and they do not have the foundation, and they do not have the connection to Knowledge.

他们没有面对情况并问自己：“我该做什么？”然后再考虑必须做的事情，而是选择崩溃。或者他们的希望会像幽灵一样蒸发。他们会从自信中跌入绝望的深渊，就像从楼上掉下来一样。他们没有力量，或在他们自己内心没有基础，也没有与内识的联接，来面对一个意料之外的情况或突如其来的事件。他们会进入否认，他们会转身离开，这不是因为他们面对的是虚幻的事物，而是因为他们没有足够的力量去面对。因为他们无法应对，无法应对是因为他们没有力量、没有基础，也没有与内识的联接。

In the absence of these things, there is only hope and fear. And hope is easily defeated. And fear is easily adopted. It is as if you have nothing to stand on in life except assumptions and beliefs, and when those assumptions are threatened or proven to be false, you fall right out of the sky. Whatever was holding you up before has deflated, and now you are falling out of the sky—falling into despair, confusion and panic.

在没有这些东西的情况下，就只有希望和恐惧。而希望很容易破灭。恐惧也很容易被接受。它就好像除了假设和信念，你在生命中没有任何立足之地，而当这些假设受到威胁或被证明是错误的时候，你就会从空中跌落。无论之前支撑着你的是什么，现在都已经消失，而你正从天空中坠落——陷入绝望、困惑和恐慌之中。

In facing the Great Waves of change, you will see this in people, this inability to face the situation, this inability to be with the problem, this demand for simple solutions, this demand for someone else to take care of the problem for them. You will see this. You can see it even now.

在面对变革巨浪时，你会看到人们的这种无力，无法面对局势，无法面对问题，要求简单的解决方案，要求他人替他们解决问题。你会看到这一点。你甚至现在就可以看到它。

Fundamental resources in the world are diminishing. That is why the cost of everything is going up, but who can face that and see what the real cause is? Even the experts cannot do this. So governed they are by hope and ambition, they cannot see the reality. Life is telling them what it means, but they cannot see it or hear it. It is as if they are blind.

世界上的基本资源正在减少。这就是一切成本都在上涨的原因，但是谁能面对这一切并看清真正的原因呢？即使是专家也做不到这一点。他们被希望和野心所支配，他们无法看清现实。生命正在告诉他们这意味着什么，但他们看不到，也听不见。他们就像瞎子一样。

Formal education does not seem to make much of a difference here. The educated do not seem to have much more vision than the uneducated. They just interpret things in more complex ways.

在这里，正规教育似乎并没有什么不同。受过教育的人似乎并不比没受过教育的人更有远见。他们只是以更复杂的方式解释事物。

You either see the signs of the world, or you do not. But to see them, you must look and keep looking. If you do not look, you will not see. If you do not see, you will not know. If you do not know, you will have no sense of where you are in life and what is happening. And you will not have the strength to deal with the changing circumstances that are bound to occur.

你要么看到世界的迹象，要么看不到。但要看到它们，你必须观察并持续观察。如果你不观察，你就看不见。如果你看不见，你就不会知道。如果你不知道，你就不会知道你在生命中的位置和正在发生的事情。你将没有力量去应对必然会发生的不断变化的环境。

You may speculate about life and change. You may bring a spiritual perspective and think that everything is being governed by a great plan, but it means nothing if it only hides the fact that you do not have the strength to face the reality of your life and to recognize the Great Waves of change that are coming to the world and the strength to prepare.

你可能会猜测关于生命和改变。你可能会从精神的角度出发，认为一切都在由一个伟大计划所管理，但如果它仅仅掩盖了这样一个事实，即你没有力量去面对你生命的现实，没有力量认识到世界正在发生的变革巨浪，没有力量去进行准备，那么这一切都毫无意义。

Your spiritual ideas mean nothing if you have not built a foundation in Knowledge and the courage to face things and problems that cannot be easily answered. Some problems do not even have answers. Great problems do not have simple solutions. You must live with the problem and work with the problem to find ways of resolving it or removing its hazards. People who want simple solutions want this because they are not strong enough to face the situation.

如果你没有在内识中建立基础，没有勇气去面对那些无法轻易回答的事情和问题，那么你的精神想法就毫无意义。有些问题甚至没有答案。大问题没有简单的解决方案。你必须与问题共存，与问题共事，找到解决问题或消除其危害的方法。想要简单解决方案的人之所以想要这样做，是因为他们没有足够的力量来面对这种情况。

Fear here is a product of a lack of preparation on one’s part and the result of one not using their intelligence, not gaining worldly wisdom. This is different from being concerned. Concern is recognizing risks and difficulties. Fear is being helpless and hopeless and overwhelmed. It is the difference between one getting off a sinking ship and one simply being frozen, not knowing what to do.

这里的恐惧是缺乏准备的产物，是一个人没有运用他们的智能、没有获得世间智慧的结果。这与担忧不同。担忧是认识到风险和困难，而恐惧则是感到无助、绝望和不知所措。它就像一个人从一艘正在下沉的船上逃出来，而不是一个人呆若木鸡，不知道该做什么之间的区别。

It is important to look at fear in this manner—the fear born of a lack of strength and preparation, born of the lack of having a real foundation of wisdom and strength, fear born of the absence of Knowledge in one’s awareness, fear that is the product, the inevitable product, of one living upon a set of unquestioned assumptions and beliefs.

以这样的方式看待恐惧是重要的——恐惧源于缺乏力量和准备，源于缺乏一种真正的智慧和力量基础，源于一个人的觉知中缺乏内识，这种恐惧是人们生活在一系列不容置疑的假设和信念之上的产物，是不可避免的产物。

God has given you a greater Intelligence to navigate the difficult and uncertain times ahead, but if you have not gained access to this Intelligence and brought it to bear in your life, then how can it possibly be of service to you? Without this deeper certainty, you only have your assumptions and your beliefs to give you any sense of stability and assurance. And what are assumptions and beliefs but just ideas in the mind? They may have nothing to do with reality at all.

上帝已经赋予你一种更伟大的智能，让你能够驾驭未来的困难和不确定时期，但如果你没有获得这种智能，并将其运用到你的生命中，那么它怎么可能为你服务呢？没有这种更深层次的确定性，你只能通过你的假设和你的信念来获得任何稳定感和保证感。而假设和信仰又何尝不是心灵中的想法呢？它们可能与现实完全无关。

The vast majority of mistakes and tragedies that people face are the product of their not paying attention, the product of their not being present to the situation, the product of not checking something out with Knowledge before making a big decision, of not heeding the warning signs, of not seeing the power and the grace of Knowledge working on their behalf.

人们所面临的绝大多数错误和悲剧，都是由于他们没有注意，没有身临其境（没有在场），在做出重大决定之前没有用内识来检查，没有注意到警告信号，没有看到内识的力量和恩典在为他们工作。

Fear occupies the emptiness, the emptiness that is the result of one not building one’s foundation sufficiently. Instead of a foundation, there is nothing there, and within that space, fear, anxiety, apprehension, self-doubt begin to fill the environment. Where reality does not exist, imagination takes over—imagination that does not have any real guidance or focus to it.

恐惧占据了空虚，这种空虚是一个人没有建立基础的结果。原本应该有基础的地方，什么也没有，在这个空间里，恐惧、焦虑、忧虑、自我怀疑开始充斥整个环境。在现实不存在的地方，想象力就会占据上风——没有任何真正的指导或焦点的想象力。

Here people fantasize and dream and speculate, but really they do not know where they are in life and they do not know what they are doing. They are unprepared for what is coming over the horizon that could be discerned if they were looking, if they were paying attention and if they maintained their attention.

在这里，人们幻想着、梦想着、猜测着，但实际上他们并不知道他们的生命在哪里，也不知道他们在做什么。他们对地平线上即将发生的事情毫无准备，如果他们留心观察，如果他们保持注意力，他们就能够辨别这些事情。

You were sent into the world to serve a world in transition, a world that will be facing the Great Waves of change, a world that will be facing the tremendous threshold of engaging with intelligent life beyond the world. You will be facing a world of declining resources, of economic instability, of political and social discord. You were sent into the world to face these things and to provide service to a struggling humanity. And yet is this your experience of who you are and why you are here? And do you really have the strength and the ability to do these things?

你被派往这个世界，服务于一个处于转型期的世界，一个将面临变革巨浪的世界，一个将面临与世界之外的智能生命接触的伟大门槛的世界。你将面对一个资源减少、经济不稳定、政治和社会不和谐的世界。你被派往这个世界，就是为了面对这些事情，为挣扎中的人类提供服务。然而，这是你的体验吗？你是谁？你为什么在这里？你真的有足够的力量和能力去做这些事情吗？

If you do not, after an honest reckoning, if you realize you do not have this strength or this awareness, then you can see what is necessary for you to focus upon: to begin to build this strength, to gain an education, to learn about the Great Waves of change, to take the Steps to Knowledge, to sober your life so that you can be present for it, so that it can be of great benefit to you, to set aside all these forms of personal avoidance and escape, to turn off the television set, to stop reading foolish things that have no meaning and to begin to focus on developing a wisdom and an awareness about what is happening in your world, to take the time to discern and to clarify and to write out your strengths and your weaknesses so you know what they are.

如果你没有，在一种诚实的清算之后，如果你意识到你不具备这种力量或这种觉知，那么你可以看到你必须专注的方向：开始建立这种力量，接受教育，去学习关于变革巨浪的课程，开展内识的进阶，让你的生命清醒，以便你能全身心地投入其中（在场），这样生命才能对你有伟大的益处，抛开所有这些形式的个人回避和逃避，关掉电视机，停止阅读那些毫无意义的愚昧读物，开始专注于发展一种智慧以及一种对世界正在发生事情的觉知，花时间去辨别、澄清，并写下你的长处和短处，以便你知道你的优缺点。

Where are your blind spots? Where do you tend to be foolish? Where do you tend to believe in other people without really questioning the value or the meaning of what they are telling you? What is the state of your personal health? What is the state of your economic situation? Are you in a position to deal with great change, or are you extremely vulnerable? Where are your strengths and your weaknesses, your assets and your liabilities? All these things then become a focus now, and they are all an antidote to fear and to negative imagination.

你的盲点在哪里？你在哪些方面容易犯傻？你在哪些方面倾向于相信他人，而不真正质疑他们告诉你的事情的价值或意义？你的个人健康状况如何？你的经济状况如何？你有能力应对变革的巨浪吗，还是你极其脆弱？你的优势和劣势在哪里，你的资产和负债在哪里？现在，所有这些事情都成为焦点，它们都是恐惧和消极想象力的解毒剂。

If you have not built your foundation, now is the time to start. Doing something really important for yourself will give you a growing sense of self-confidence. Taking action, not simply being aware of something but taking action regarding it, will give you a sense of confidence and movement in your life. You need this confidence, and you need this movement. You need to see that you can actually do something. Even if it seems insignificant, you can do something, and you are doing something, and you are keeping your eyes fixed on what it is that you must prepare for. You are avoiding all the tendencies within yourself to want to give up or to run away or to go into denial and avoidance. This is filling your life with strength and certainty, creating very little space for fear to emerge.

如果你还没有建立基础，现在正是开始的时候。为你自己做一些真正重要的事情，会让你的自信心与日俱增。采取行动，不是简单地察觉到某件事情，而是对其采取行动，这将给你的生命带来自信和活力。你需要这种自信，你需要这种行动。你需要看到你确实能做些什么。即使它看起来微不足道，你也能做一些事情，而且你正在做一些事情，你的眼睛紧盯着你必须做好准备的事情。你正在避免你自己内心所有想要放弃、逃避、否认和回避的倾向。这让你的生命充满力量和确定性，几乎没有空间让恐惧出现。

Do not worry what other people are doing. It is what you must do. Learn from those who are doing more than you are doing, but do not wait for a consensus, for the consensus will not be a consensus of wisdom. Do not follow the weak. Do not identify with the weak. And do not condemn the weak.

不要担心他人在做什么。这是你必须做的。向那些比你做得更多的人学习，但不要等待共识，因为共识不会是智慧的共识。不要追随弱者。不要认同弱者。也不要谴责弱者。

Instead, build your strength. Build your foundation in Knowledge. Bring your life into order and do not stop. And instead of fear, you will begin to feel the Power of God working in you and through you. And regardless of how difficult the circumstances may seem around you, you will be able to bring this strength with you.

相反，要建立你的力量。在内识中建立基础。让你的生命井然有序，不要停滞不前。这样，你就不会感到恐惧，而是开始感受到上帝的伟大力量在你身上并通过你工作。无论你周围的环境看起来多么困难，你将能够带着这种力量前行。

This is your gift to the world, the world you have come to serve. It requires you to become strong and capable, aware and observant. It requires that you escape fantasy and denial, helplessness and hopelessness, for you are here to serve the world. And those who sent you into the world are your strength and your reminder that you are here for a greater purpose.

这是你送给世界的礼物，也是你为之服务的世界。它要求你变得强大和有能力，要求你保持觉察和敏锐。它要求你摆脱幻想与否认、无助与绝望，因为你来到这里是为了服务这个世界。而那些把你送到这个世界的存在，是你的力量，他们提醒着你，你来到这里是为了一个更伟大的目的。