与神对话

摘录一些台词。觉得书里会有更多精彩的内容，准备购入。
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一旦你流落街头，将很难交到朋友。但一旦交到朋友，也很难失去他们。

我们所有的行为，要么出自爱，要么出自恐惧。

若你想知道自己对某件事的真实看法，问问你对它感觉如何。

我们都在和上帝对话，比如某次你正想和某人打电话，他刚好就打了过来。正在路上开车，感觉人生毫无意义，结果广播里的下一首歌就直接向你述说，就仿佛歌词专为你而写，然后所有的事情就联系在了一起。或者某人莫名其妙突然进入你的生活，你会想，为什么这个人在这里，然后突然某天你意识到他意义重大，你无法想象没有他的到来，你会如何生活。这就是上帝。

“我在这里因为我失业了。”“不，你在这里因为你迷失了自己。”

你制定所有的规则。

问问你自己，如果出于爱，现在你会怎么做？

你不能得到任何自己“想要”的东西。想要本身就意味着匮乏，你无法得到你的匮乏。

平静的心境可以孕育灵感，而灵感将能够解决你面临的最大的问题。

我不在乎你取得的任何成绩，你才是那个在乎的人。不要试着维持生计，而要去做你爱的事，不要做任何别的事。人生太短暂了。

如果你想要过充裕的生活，就为别人创造这样的生活。

    从来没有这样看电影的感受，缓缓的乐音配合着赋有磁性男音，款款低语，时而悠远低沉，时而近在耳畔。说不清楚，我是被这样的声音所感动，还是被声音传递的内容所震撼。沉醉在其一遍之后，我再次重温了“上帝之音”的那一部分，并按照原音及字幕，原封不动地做了笔录（尽管我知道网上有下载）。
   “Conversations with God”所蕴涵西方的宗教与文化，我无法评述。源于不了解，源于我不是“他”。
   当然，就从影片的很多表达上而言，还是有很多矛盾，或者说不清晰的地方。比如，当Neale在演讲时，一个老头站起来责备Neale这些措词是冠冕堂皇的，一边口口声声说着“发乎于心的爱”，另一边又无法忠于家庭。Neale的回答是不能因为他个人生活的瑕疵，而否定“与神对话”的意义。这显然是一个无法让人满意的答案。最后，那老头让Neale用一句话总结God想对人类所说的话时，Neale的回答是“You’ve got me all wrong.”God 对Neale说“你们误解了我，也误解了你自己。”或许，我们从来都没有理解过所谓的God。
   God还说“真正杰出的人是那些选择怎样生活而不是怎样生存的人”。从西方个人主义的角度来看，这句话很有激励动力。然，站在另一个角度，就像Neale找不到工作只能在垃圾箱寻找食物的时刻，这些论调能在多大程度上帮助一个人Stand Up？
   对于God，对于Life，我依然又数不尽道不完的置疑。这大概也是这部片子的主要所在，重要的不是God所说的，它只是一面镜子，让我们得以安安静静地对着它，反观自身。

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Neale asked: I want answers! What does it take to make life work?

God told to him:

Have you had enough yet?
Have you had enough yet?
Are you ready now?
Do you really want to know the answers to the questions you’re asking?
Are you going to answer me?
You’ve asked a lot of question. You’re angry.
And now I ask you, do you really want to know the answers to the questions you’re asking or are you just venting? -This is crazy.
I know what you’re thinking. And I talk to everyone all the time in their own voice.
The question is who listens?
From the highest mountain it has been shouted.
In the lowest place, its whisper has been heard.
And through the corridors of all human experience, the truth has been echoed.
Love is the answer.

You have projected the role of parent onto God and have thus come up with a God who judges and rewards of punishes.
You have created a fear based reality around love.
And this fear-based love reality dominates your experience of love.
Indeed, it actually creates it.
It is fear that you need in order to be, do and have what is intrinsically right?
Must be threatened in order to be good?
And what is being good?
Who gets the final say about that?
I tell you this. You are your own rule-maker. You set the guidelines.
Love is all there is.
Yes, you’re heard it before.
In fact, I’ve even put it on a bumper sticker for you.
But in times of trouble, in times of worry, doubt or fear you choose to forget.
What you should do is answer the simple question –what would love do now?
To live you life without expectation, without the need for specific results, that is freedom.

Remember, You are constantly in the act of creating yourself.
You are, in every moment, deciding who and what you are.
You decide this largely through the choices you make regarding who and what you fell passionate about.
Worry is the activity of a mind that does not understand it connection with me.
Do you remember the question-what would love do now?
Answer the question, Neale.
And I will be there, always, in all ways.

Suffering has nothing to do with events, but with one’s reaction to them.
What’s happening is merely what’s happening.
How we feel about it is another matter.
You can’t have anything you want
Your very request is one of lack. And you saying you want a thing only works to produce that precise experience –wanting –in your reality.
Should I would punish you for making a choice that I myself have laid before you?
This is a question you must ask yourself before you would assign me the role of a condemning god.

Unendingly have you beseeched me, show myself. Explain myself. Reveal myself.
I am doing so here in terms so plain you cannot misunderstand.
I am here. Right here. Right now.
Now is the time to go to your god space, more and ever.
It will bring you great peace of mind.
And from a peaceful mind do great ideas flow ideas which could be solutions to the biggest problems you imagine yourself to have.

Neale, you’ve got me all wrong, and you’ve got you all wrong too.
I don’t want anything from you rather than for you to be happy.
But you think you are below me, when in truth, we are all one. There is no separation.
I want for you what you want for you –nothing more, nothing less.
I am not concerned about your worldly success.
You are not to worry about making a living.
True masters are those who have chosen to make a life rather than a living.
Go ahead. Do whatever you really love. Do nothing else.
You have so little time.
How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living that you don’t like to do? That is not a living. That is dying.

At last
Do not feel abandoned, for I am always with you. I will not leave you.
I cannot leave you, for you are my creation and my product, my daughter, my son, my purpose and myself.
Call on me, therefore wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am.
I will be there.