聽神談【什麼是你「靈魂之所欲」？】
你們在這星球上並不是要以你的身體來產生任何東西。你們在這個星球上是要以你的靈魂來產生一些東西。你的身體只不過單純地是你靈魂的工具，你的頭腦是令身體做事的力量(Your body is simply and merely the tool of your soul. Your mind is the power that makes the body go.)。因此， 你在此所擁有的是個有力的工具，用來創造靈魂之所欲(soul’s desire)。
尼爾：靈魂之所欲是什麼？
問得好，是什麼？
尼爾：我不知道，我在問你。
我也不知道。是我在問你。
尼：這樣的問題可以永遠繼續下去。
它已經是那樣了。
尼爾：等一下！我記得你不久前說過靈魂在尋求成為你(the soul is seeking to be You)。
所以它是在尋求成為我(神)。那就是靈魂之所欲。
在最廣泛的意義上，是的。但它尋求的這個我，是個非常複雜，非常多重次元、多重感官、多重面向的。我有一百萬個面向。十億、一兆個面向。你明白嗎？有粗俗污穢的、有深邃微妙的、較小的和較大的、空洞的和神聖的、陰森可怕的和虔誠神聖的。你明白嗎？
尼爾：是的，是的，我明白……有上和下、左和右、這裡和那裡、之前和之後、好和壞……
確實如此。我是起點和終點。那並非只是一句美麗的說詞，或一個俏皮的觀點。那是被說出的真相(That was Truth expressed. 被表達出來的真理)。
所以，在尋求成為我的靈魂，有個宏偉的工作在它面前；有個巨大的「being 菜單」可從中選擇。而那正是它現在這一刻在做的事。
尼爾：選擇being的狀態(成為、是、存在的狀態) 。
是的——然後靈魂會產生出正確而完美的情境狀態，以讓你在其中創造那(你靈魂選擇要體驗的)being狀態的經驗。所以說，沒有一件發生在你身上或經由你發生的事，不是為了「你自己的最高利益」而發生的（nothing happens to you or through you that is not for your own highest good）是真實的。
尼爾：你的意思是，我的靈魂在創造我所有的經驗，不只包括我在做的事，並且包括發生在我身上的事？
我們不如說，是靈魂引領你到正確而完美的機會，讓你精確地去經驗你(超意識層面的你)已計畫要體驗的東西。你實際上經驗什麼是由你決定。它可以是你計畫要經驗的，或它可以是其他另外的事，取決於你的選擇。
摘自《與神對話 I 》第12章
You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your soul. Your body is simply and merely the tool of your soul. Your mind is the power that makes the body go. So what you have here is a power tool, used in the creation of the soul’s desire.
Neale: What is the soul’s desire?
Indeed, what is it?
Neale: I don’t know. I’m asking You.
I don’t know. I’m asking you.
Neale: This could go on forever.
It has.
Neale: Wait a minute! A moment ago You said the soul is seeking to be You.
So it is.
Neale: Then that is the soul’s desire.
In the broadest sense, yes. But this Me it is seeking to be is very complex, very multi-dimensional, multi-sensual, multi-faceted. There are a million aspects to Me. A billion. A trillion. You see? There is the profane and the profound, the lesser and the larger, the hollow and the holy, the ghastly and the Godly. You see?
Neale: Yes, yes, I see… the up and the down, the left and the right, the here and the there, the before and the after, the good and the bad…
Precisely. I am the Alpha and the Omega. That was not just a pretty saying, or a nifty concept. That was Truth expressed.
So, in seeking to be Me, the soul has a grand job ahead of it; an enormous menu of beingness from which to choose. And that is what it is doing in this moment now.
Neale: Choosing states of being.
Yes—and then producing the right and perfect conditions within which to create the experience of that. It is therefore true that nothing happens to you or through you that is not for your own highest good.
Neale: You mean my soul is creating all of my experience, including not only the things I am doing, but the things that are happening to me?
Let us say that the soul leads you to the right and perfect opportunities for you to experience exactly what you had planned to experience. What you actually experience is up to you. It could be what you planned to experience, or it could be something else, depending upon what you choose.
