聽神談【神創造生命的目的】
尼爾：你看著你的孩子們無所事事並毀掉（或視爲理所當然）你給予我們的每樣東西，你有什麼感受？
如果我對結果有投入和預期的話，你會認爲那會是令人沮喪的，但對於我們一起進行的冒險結果，我並無任何預期。並沒有我「需要」事情「成為」的樣子。
如果我真要事情是什麽樣子的話，你以爲我無法讓它們那樣嗎？如果我無法那樣，我算哪門子的神啊？
我創造生命並不是來「逐行我的意思」。我創造生命是爲了「讓你們逐行你們的意願」(I did not create life to “get my way”. I created life to let you get yours.)。藉由這過程，我的確逐行我所願，因爲我選擇的是：讓你們去决定你們是誰和你們是什麽，以及你們所希望是誰和是什麽——在個人及社會兩方面都是如此。
我所觀察到的是，許多人類「無所事事並毀掉」（或視爲理所當然）他們擁有的大半東西，這對他們並沒有幫助。這並沒讓他們得以體驗到他們說他們所希望體驗的東西。
他們說他們想去西雅圖（Seattle ，美國西北部大城市），却朝聖荷西（San Jose，美國加州南部城市，在西雅圖之南）走。他們說他們想要一個和平、和諧與愛的世界，他們希望他們的一生充滿了喜悅、快樂與富足，但他們却做出打擊和平、和諧與愛的每一件事，而讓他們實際上不可能體驗到喜悅、快樂與富足。
有趣的是，這並非由於他們不知道如何做。人類一向都被給予創造他們最高夢想的所有工具。他們只是沒有選擇去運用那些創造工具。
尼爾：爲什麽？
因爲他們不相信這工具會有用，或他們甚至不記得他們擁有那些工具...
摘自《與神對話 青春版》第5章
Neale: What's it like to see your children sit around and destroy (or take for granted) everything you have given us?
If I had an investment in outcomes, you would think it would be depressing, but I have no investment in the outcome of the adven- ture we are taking together. There is no one way that I "need" things to "be."
If there was a way that I really wanted things, do you suppose that I could not have them that way? What kind of a God would I be if I couldn't?
I did not create life to "get my way." I created life to let you get yours. By this process I DO get my way, because what I choose is for you to decide who and what you are, and who and what you wish to be—both as individuals and as a society.
What I observe is that many humans "sit around and destroy" (or take for granted) much of what they have, and that this does not serve them. It does not allow them to experience what they say they wish to experience.
They are saying that they want to go to Seattle, but they are heading for San Jose. They are saying that they want a world of peace, harmony, and love, and that they wish their lives to be filled with joy, happiness, and abundance, but they are doing everything that works against peace, harmony, and love, and making it virtually impossible to experience joy, happiness, and abundance.
Interestingly, this is not because they do not know how. Humans have been given all the tools with which to create the life of their highest dreams. They simply choose not to use them.
Neale: Why?
Because they do not believe that these tools work, or because they do not even remember that they have them…
