這是一段來自宇宙最高智慧的珍貴觀察建言，一份可以「加速我們意識的成長與覺知的擴展」的有效秘訣。代價是：反複地閱讀它，直到你看見它的價值，並願意在日常生活中去覺察、檢視和反芻它，也就是，願意去正視、思考和練習此篇所講的每一個觀念。因為，與神對話所談的每一個觀念，都是屬於「人類演化必然趨向的新觀念」——雖然許多人還難以接受，但能夠帶給我們極大價值——都是屬於今日社會缺乏的生活智慧，以及已經日漸被人們明顯發現或聽見的「新觀念」：
正視那【你已納為「你的真理」的價值判斷】
你們關於對與錯的想法，就只是個想法而已。它們是形成「你是誰」的思維想法，和創造「你是誰」的實質內容。只有一個原因會去改變這些；只有一個目的會去造成一個改變，就是：如果你對「你是誰」覺得不滿意。
如果你的價值對你有用、有幫助，保有它們。為它們辯論。
尼爾：你說「要保有你的價值」也同時說我們的價值全都搞錯。請幫我解釋這點。
我並沒說你們的價值是「錯的」。但也沒有說它們是「對的」。它們只是判斷、評估、決定。大多數情況下，它們並非你的決定，卻是其他人的決定。也許，是你父母吧。或者，你的宗教、你的老師、歷史學家、政客們的決定。
你已納為「你的真理」的價值判斷(value judgments you have incorporated into your truth)，很少是你——你自己，以你自身的經驗為基礎而做出的判斷。然而，經驗是你投胎來到這裡的目的——經由「你的經驗」來創造你自己。但你卻一直在經由「別人的經驗」創造你自己。
如果真有所謂的「罪」這樣的東西的話，那它會是：你因為別人的經驗，讓自己變成你今日所是的樣子(If there were such a think as sin, this would be it: to allow yourself to become what you are because of the experience of others.)。這是你已犯下的「罪」。你們所有人都是。你沒等到你自己的經驗，就接受別人的經驗為福音（不誇張地說），然後，當你第一次遇到了實際的經驗時，你就將「你認為你已經知道的」覆蓋在那際遇上(you overlay what you think you already know onto the encounter)。
摘自《與神對話 I》第2章
Your ideas about right and wrong are just that—ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.
If your values serve you, hold to them. Argue for them. Fight to defend them.
You say “hold to your values” at the same time you say our values are all wrong. Help me with this.
I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.
Very few of the value judgments you have incorporated into your truth are judgments you, yourself, have made based on your own experience. Yet experience is what you came here for—and out of your experience were you to create yourself. You have created yourself out of the experience of others.
If there were such a thing as sin, this would be it: to allow yourself to become what you are because of the experience of others. This is the “sin” you have committed. All of you. You do not await your own experience, you accept the experience of others as gospel (literally), and then, when you encounter the actual experience for the first time, you overlay what you think you already know onto the encounter.
