聽神談【關於「譴責、定罪」和「讚美」】
「譴責、定罪」的幻覺，可用來經驗「你絕對是值得受到讚美的」這個事實。這是個你無法揣摩的事，因為你們是如此深地沉溺在「定罪的幻覺」裡。不過，如果你每時每刻都活在內心的讚美裡，你是無法經驗到它的。讚美對你會毫無意義。你不會明白它是什麼。
當讚美是所有的一切時，讚美的榮耀就不見了。然而，你們卻將這覺知帶到了一個極端，將「不完美和定罪的幻覺」帶到了新的層次，你們現在真的認為讚美是錯的——尤其是自我讚賞(self-praise)。你不該讚美自己，或留意到「你是誰」的榮耀，更別說是去宣告它了。而且你們還必須吝於對別人讚美。你們下了結論說，讚美是不好的。
「譴責、定罪」的幻覺也即宣告說，你和神是可能受傷害的。然而事實上，相反才是真的，但是如果沒有任何的其他實相在場時，你是無法知道或體驗這真相的。因此，你們創造了一個替代的實相(alternate reality)：傷害是可能的，而定罪就是它的證據。
再重複一次：你或神可被損害的想法是個幻覺(the idea that you, or God, can be damaged is an illusion)。如果神是一切中的一切（事實上我是），如果神是最具力量的（我是的）、如果神是至高無上的存在（我是的），那麼神是不可能受傷或受損的。如果你是以神的形象和模樣造出來的（而你是的），那麼，你也不可能受傷或受損了。
摘自《與神合一》第15章
The Seventh Illusion, the Illusion of Condemnation, may be used to experience the fact that you are deserving of nothing but praise. This is something that you cannot fathom, for you live so deeply within your Illusion of Condemnation. If, however, you lived within the heart of praise every moment, you could not experience it. Praise would mean nothing to you. You would not know what it was.
The glory of praise is lost when praise is all there is. Yet you have taken this awareness to an extreme, taking the illusion of imperfection and Condemnation to new levels, where you now actually believe praise to be wrong—especially self-praise. You are not to praise yourself, or to notice (much less announce) the glory of Who You Are. And you must be sparing in your praise of others. Praise, you have concluded, is not good.
The Illusion of Condemnation is also your announcement that you, and God, can be damaged. Exactly the opposite is true, of course, but you cannot know this truth, nor experience it, in the absence of any other reality. And so, you have created an alternate reality in which damage is possible, and Condemnation is proof of it.
To repeat, the idea that you, or God, can be damaged is an illusion. If God is the All In All (and I am), and if God is the Most Powerful (and I am), and if God is the Supreme Being (it is true), then God is incapable of being hurt or damaged. And if you are made in the image and likeness of God (and you are), then you cannot be hurt or damaged either.
