聽神談【高度演化的個人與社會對「利潤」的定義】
尼爾：如果每個人都與所有人分享一切，那我們如何謀生？而每一個「利潤」的定義，都必須包括每個人的利益嗎？
生活的經驗並不是某種「一個人應必須『賺』多少」的事情。生命是個禮物，給你們所有人的禮物，而不是某種每一天「你應必須讓自己在生活中被評價多少」的事情。
設計出一個「讓社會成員能夠實現個人及群體的需求，而不必出賣自己的靈魂並放棄自己的夢想才能存活」的制度，是任何文明都能容易做到的事。
尼爾：我聽懂你的意思了。必定有辦法可以創建一個制度，在其中每個人都可貢獻或多或少的平等能量，每個人都能或多或少平等地受益，沒有人必須生活在一個僅有最起碼生存條件的情況裡，沒有人必須「放棄任何希望才能去做他們在此生真正喜歡做的」才得以存活。但是，除非我們整個社會改變，我認為創造這制度並不容易。
實際上，當大多數人看到那些「你們選擇帶頭示範的人真的是多麼容易做到」的時候，你們整個社會就會改變。我剛才說，「自我選擇」幫助喚醒人類的目標，不是宣布自己成為一個帶領者，而是成為一個「已被自己深刻的內在知曉(inner knowing)帶領向另一種人類可活出的方式」的人。
永遠記住，「領導者」不是一個說「跟隨我」的人。領導者是一個說「我將先以身作則」的人。
你無法一夜之間改變你們地球上社會運作的方式，但你可以立即單獨地展現和示範一個「已被喚醒的物種」的基本特質——從自己開始做起。
摘自《與神對話 4》第19章
Neale: But as I said earlier, how would we earn a living if everybody shared everything with everyone, and every definition of "profit" had to include benefit for everyone?
The experience of living is not something that one should have to "earn". Life is a gift, given to all of you, and it is not something you should have to make yourself worthy of every day of your existence.
A system could easily be devised by any civilization that would allow society to fulfil individual and group needs without the members of that society having to sell their soul and abandon their dreams in order to survive.
Neale: I hear that. There must be a way to create a social system in which everyone contributes more or less equal energy and everyone benefits more or less equally, with no one having to live a bare bones existence, and no one having to let go of any hope to do something they really love in this life in order to stay alive. Until our whole society changes, it's not going to be easy to create this, I guess.
Actually, your whole society will change when the majority sees how easy it really is for those of you who choose to lead the way. I said earlier that the object of self-selecting to help awaken the species was not to declare yourself to be a leader, but rather, one who has been led, by a deep inner knowing, to another way to be human.
Remember always that a "leader" is not one who says, "Follow me." A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
You can't change overnight the way your Earthly societies function, but you can individually demonstrate and model the foundational qualities of an awakened species immediately – by going first.
