聽神談【《與神對話》系列的書與「宗教」】
《與神對話》系列的書根本不是宗教性的書。如果它們是的話，我會告訴你去燒掉它們所有的書，並且永遠忘掉它們。
這些書有很大的價值───但是，僅做為一種「人類個別經驗」的參考。從這樣的角度，它們的價值是無法估計的。若轉變成某種新形式的「表達靈性的官方教材」或「神聖源頭」，它們則是危險的。而你也一樣。
尼爾：我沒有變成危險人物的意圖。
那麼，無論你到哪兒去，你都要讓人們清楚明白：你曾有的經驗，每個人都能有，而且許多人也都有過(everyone can have, and many have had)。你將讓世界明白：每個人一直都在「與神對話」，而問題不是「神在跟誰說話」，而是「有誰在傾聽」？
摘自《重新定義神》第16章
So the New Spirituality is not just a turning of the Conversations with God books into a "new religion". It is anything and everything BUT that. If that's what it was, I would tell you to burn those books and forget them forever.
These books have great value—but only as the individual experience of one human being. Taken in that context, their value is inestimable. Turned into the "official text" or the "sacred source" of some new form of spiritual expression, they could be dangerous. And so could you.
Neale: I have no intention of becoming dangerous.
Then you will make it clear wherever you go that the experience you have had, everyone can have, and many have had. You will cause the world to understand that everyone is having "Conversations with God" all the time, and that the question is not to whom does God talk? But who listens?
