如果你把所有的權威(authority)都放在你自己的外面，那麼，你就會把「在你之外找到的東西」轉變成並取代「你只能在你之內找到的東西」───你的神聖源頭。
永遠記住：你的神聖源頭就位於一個地方───只在一個地方：在你之內。(Your Holy Source lies in one place, and one place only: within You)。摘自《重新定義神》第16章
聽神談【如何幫自己找到「救贖」？】
你的第一個關係必然是與你自己(Self，Self是指真正的自己，非小我的自己)的關係。你必須先學會尊重、珍惜，並且愛你自己(Self)。
在你能視別人為有價值的人之前，你必須先視你自己為有價值的。在你能視別人為有福的之前，你必須先視你自己為有福的。在你能承認存在於別人之內的神聖性之前，你必須先了解你自己(Self)是神聖的。
如果你把馬車放置在馬的前方——如同大多數的宗教要你做的——並且在承認你自己為神聖的之前，就先承認別人為神聖的，有一天你會對它懊悔憤恨。如果有一事是你們無法忍受的， 那就是有人比你更神聖。然而，你們的宗教卻強迫你們稱別人比你們神聖。因而，你照做了一段時日，然後你詆毀他們。
你們曾(以一種或另一種方式)詆毀和釘死了所有我派給你們的老師，不只一位而已。而你們如此做，並非因為他們比你神聖，卻是因為你們將他們看成是那樣。
我派給你們的老師們全都帶來同樣的訊息：並非「我比你神聖」，卻是「你與我一樣神聖」。
這是你們尚未能聽見的信息；這是你們尚未能接受的真理。而那就是你們為何一直都無法真正地、單純地愛上別人的原因。因為你一直都未曾真正地、單純地愛上你自己。
因此我告訴你們這點：現在並且永遠以你自己為中心(be now and forever centered upon your Self，地去覺察、去愛、去 being)。在任何一刻好好察看你所being(處於)、doing(從事)、having(擁有)的是什麼，而非別人怎麼搞的、在做什麼。
你的救贖並非在別人的行為（action）中，只會在你的反應（re-action）中被你覺察發現。(It is not in the action of another, but in your re-action, that your salvation will be found.)
摘自《與神對話 I》第8章
You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first see your Self as blessed before you can see another as blessed. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another.
If you put the cart before the horse—as most religions ask you to do— and acknowledge another as holy before you acknowledge yourself, you will one day resent it. If there is one thing none of you can tolerate, it is someone being holier than thou. Yet your religions force you to call others holier than thou. And so you do it—for a while. Then you crucify them.
You have crucified (in one way or another) all of My teachers, not just One. And you did so not because they were holier than thou, but because you made them out to be.
My teachers have all come with the same message. Not "I am holier than thou," but "You are as holy as am I."
This is the message you have not been able to hear; this is the truth you have not been able to accept. And that is why you can never truly, purely, fall in love with another. You have never truly, purely fallen in love with your Self.
And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.
It is not in the action of another, but in your re-action, that your salvation will be found.
