【作者】Eileen Caddy
【翻譯】熊倩涵
【編輯】顏士寶
How can you expect to live a deep spiritual life unless you are willing to make an effort to do something about it? You cannot live on other souls’ experiences, glories and triumphs, on other souls’ oneness with Me. It is something you have to seek and find for yourself. Start right now doing your own thinking and standing on your own feet, and cease leaning on anyone else. When a person has been on crutches for some time unless they are willing to throw aside those crutches and make the effort to walk without them, they will go through life depending on them and lose the use of their legs altogether. That is why it is vitally important for you to stand on your own feet spiritually and receive your inspiration from within and not from without. Each one will receive it in a different way. There is no set pattern. Find out your way and start living it now.
我怎麼能期待去活出一個有深度的靈性生活，如果我不願意為它去努力做些什麼？我無法活在其他的靈魂的經驗、榮耀與勝利之中，無法活在其他靈魂與上天的合一之中。這是一件需要我去尋求，並為自己找到的事物。
從此刻開始，進行我自己的思考，靠我自己站立，並停止依靠在其他人身上。
當一個人靠在了拐杖上一段時間，除非他們願意將那些拐杖丟到一邊，以及努力不帶著它們去行走，不然他們會依賴拐杖度過一生，並喪失了使用他們的雙腿的能力。
這就是為什麼在精神上靠我自己站立是極為重要的，和從內在而不是外在得到我的靈感。
每一個人都會以不同的方式得到它。沒有一定的套路。找出我的方式，並現在就開始活出它。
