「Being的狀態」先於經驗，並產生經驗(Beingness precedes experience, and produces it.)。一旦你真正搞懂這點，你將開始主宰自己的人生！
聽神談【有關「豐盛」的秘密：Being先於經驗】
現在，這是關於你們的真相：你們不可能不存活。你們無法不存活。並不是你「是否會活」，而是你「怎麼活」的問題。也就是說，你會以什麼形式、採取什麼方式過你的生活？你會經驗到什麼？
我告訴你：你們不需要任何東西來存活，你們的存活是被保證的。我給了你們永生，而我永遠不會拿走它。
聽到這裡，你也許會說：沒錯，存活是一回事，但活得快樂卻是另一回事。你可能認為，你需要某些東西才能活得快樂，也就是說，只有在某些狀況下你才能快樂。這並非真實，但是你認為就是這樣。而因為信念會產生經驗…
你可能認為，只有在某些情況條件下你才是豐盛的。這並非真實，但是你已相信那是真實的。而因為信念會產生經驗，你們已經用這種方式在體驗人生，所以你們也想像神必定也是以此方式在體驗生命。然而，這對神來說並非真的，只是你相信。
這裡有一個偉大的秘密：
豐盛並不是「被某些狀況、條件產生出來」的結果。
某些狀況之所以被創造出來，是「因為豐盛而產生」的結果。
這個聲明也適用於其他每一種「being狀態」。
(如：快樂、愛、慈悲、不滿、匱乏、感恩、搞不清楚、越來越有覺知……等。上述的「某些情況」全都可以用這些狀態取代。例如：快樂並不是「被某些狀況、條件產生出來」的結果。某些狀況之所以被創造出來，是「因為快樂而產生的結果。)
「Being(所處)的狀態」先於經驗，並產生經驗。(Beingness precedes experience, and produces it.)
當你明白這一點時，你也會像神一樣，開始主宰生命。
摘自《與神合一》第1章
Now here is the truth about you: It is impossible for you not to survive. You cannot fail to live, It is not a question of whether you will live but how That is, what form will you take? What will your experience be?
I tell you this: You need nothing to survive. Your survival is guaranteed. I gave you everlasting life, and I never took it away from you.
Hearing this, you may say yes, but survival is one thing, and happiness is another. You may imagine that you need something in order to survive happily—that you can be happy only under certain conditions. This is not true, but you have believed it to be true. And because belief produces experience, you have experienced life in this way…
You may imagine that you can be abundant only under certain conditions. This is not true, but you have believed it to be true. And because belief produces experience, you have experienced life in this way, and have thus imagined a God who must experience Life in this way as well. Yet this is no more true for God than it is for you.
Here is a great secret:
Abundance is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of abundance.
This statement holds true for every other state of being as well.
Beingness precedes experience, and produces it.
When you know this, you will be as God. You will have mastered life.
