聽神談【「伊甸園」神話故事要傳達的真理是什麼？】
伊甸園是一個虛構的神話(myth)，但這個故事是為了傳達一個偉大的真理：當你們擁有一切，卻不知道你什麼都有時，你們是什麼都沒有。
神是豐盛富足的，你們也一樣。在伊甸園的神話裡，你們一切都有，但你們不知道。你們經歷著永生，但那不算什麼。因為你們沒有經驗到任何其他的。
要讓你知道擁有一切是什麼意思的唯一方法，就是在某些時空和意義上讓你們並非什麼都有。由此，產生了「不足的幻覺」。
「你們會覺得不足」的本意是一個賜福，經由它，你們才會了解和經驗你真實與全然的豐足。然而盡管如此，你還是必須踏出那幻覺——視那幻覺為一個幻覺，並離開它——才能有這樣的經驗。
摘自《與神合一》第15章
The Garden of Eden is a myth, but the story was intended to convey a great truth. When you have everything and do not know that you have everything, you have nothing.
God is abundant, and so are you. In the Garden of Eden you had everything, but you did not know it. You experienced eternal life, but it did not matter. It did not impress you because you experienced nothing else.
The only way for you to know what it means to have everything is for you to at some point have less than everything. Hence, the Illusion of Insufficiency.
Your insufficiency was intended as a blessing, through which you could know and experience your true and total abundance. Yet it is necessary to step outside of the Illusion— to see the Illusion as an illusion, and move away from it—in order to have this experience.
