本篇摘錄：「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，你讓自己變成了你今日所是的樣子。對許多人而言，關於錢財的價值判斷，即是一個切身的好例子….參閱此篇：
聽神談【正視人們關於「錢」的價值判斷】
你們已納為「你的真理」的價值判斷(the value judgment you have incorporated into your truth)，很少是你自己的—— 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，你讓自己變成了你今日所是的樣子。你沒等到你自己的經驗，就接受別人的經驗為福音，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。
如果你不這樣做的話，你可能會有一個全然不同的經驗——可能使得你原本的教導老師或來源是錯誤的。然而，在大部分情況下，你不想使你的父母、你的學校、你的宗教、你的傳統、你的聖典是錯誤的——所以你否定了你自己的經驗，而贊成別人已告訴你的東西。
這一點，再也沒有比你們對於「人類性行為」的處理上，被證實得更清楚的了。
在錢財方面，你們也做了同樣的價值判斷。在你的人生中，每當你有很多很多錢財時，你都覺得棒極了。你收到錢覺得棒極了，你花掉錢也覺得棒極了。這並沒有什麼不好，沒有什麼壞，更不是 什麼與生俱來是「錯」的事。然而，在這個議題上，你們已經讓自己如此根深蒂固地植入了別人的教誨，以至你否定了你自己的經驗，而去支持你認為的「真理」。
在接納了這「真理」為你自己的真理後，你已在它的周圍塑造了一些想法——想法是具有創造力的。於是你就這樣地創造了一個圍繞著這想法的個人實相，一個將金錢推離你的個人實相——因為，你怎麼會不吸引你已視為真理的東西？
摘自《與神對話 I》第2章
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.
If you did not do this, you might have a wholly different experience—one that might render your original teacher or source wrong. In most cases, you don’t want to make your parents, your schools, your religions, your traditions, your holy scriptures wrong—so you deny your own experience in favor of what you have been told to think.
Nowhere can this be more profoundly illustrated than in your treatment of human sexuality.
You have done the same thing with money. Every time in your life that you have had lots and lots of money, you have felt great. You felt great receiving it, and you felt great spending it. There was nothing bad about it, nothing evil, nothing inherently “wrong.” Yet you have so deeply ingrained within you the teachings of others on this subject that you have rejected your experience in favor of “truth.”
Having adopted this “truth” as your own, you have formed thoughts around it—thoughts which are creative. You have thus created a personal reality around money which pushes it away from you—for why would you seek to attract that which is not good?
