【作者】Eileen Caddy
【翻譯】熊倩涵
【編輯】顏士寶
Let neither intellectual pride nor preconceived Ideas, opinions and prejudices lock and bar the way; nor close yourself to truth because it does not come through conventional or orthodox means. You are moving into the new, and therefore you must be prepared for many new ways and means. When a child is moved into a higher grade in school, it has to learn to expand and to take in and accept all the new subjects it has to learn. So it is with moving into the New Age. You have to be willing to branch out, to try new experiments, to step out into the unknown. You even have to be willing to make mistakes and learn by those mistakes, knowing that as you do so, you will keep growing in wisdom and knowledge and understanding. Do not be concerned; you will not be moved up from the first grade straight into the sixth grade. Step by step the way will be revealed to you, and you will be moved be gradually.
不要讓我智力上的自負，或是先入為主的想法、觀點、或偏見封鎖了那道路；也不要把我自己關在真理之外，只因為它不是來自於常規公認的途徑。我正在進入新時期，也因此我必須得為很多新的方式與途徑做好準備。當一個孩子被升到更高的年級時，她／他必須得學習去擴展，去接受和接納所有她／他需要去學習的新的學科。進入新時代也是一個這樣的過程。我必須得願意去涉足（新領域），嘗試新的實驗，踏入未知。我甚至需要願意去犯錯，並通過那些錯誤來學習，要知道當我這樣做時，我會持續在智慧、知識、和領悟上成長。
不要擔心；我不會直接從一年級被升到六年級。一步步地，那道路會被揭示於我，而我會被逐漸挪動。
