神回答青少年【為何世界的價值觀如此混亂？】
尼爾(替16歲青少年問)：為何這世界價值觀的優先順序如此混亂？難道只有年輕人才知道什麽是真的重要，而那並不是「賺錢」，或「達到最高權位」，或「出名」，或任何那類的事情？
就人類說它希望如何體驗人生的角度而言，有時候看起來，似乎青少年才真的對人生中何者是重要的較有概念。
年紀較大的成年人往往說的是一回事，做的卻是另一回事。例如他們說，他們想要過長壽、健康和快樂的生活，然後他們卻吸烟，喝酒，並且將自己置於不可置信的壓力下，為了獲得和累積那些對較年少的人來說沒有意義的東西。
這種野心勃勃和勞累的「上進」，或只為「保持不被拉下」的行為，是建立於恐懼上的——那是較年輕的人不太會做的事。這恐懼當然是因為「不足」，如我先前提過的 ( 註：足以讓人快樂的東西，例如錢、權力、資源等。 ) 。
這種恐懼是如此全面地存在，因而在許多時代和許多地方已實際上變成了「人類經驗」的一部份。換言之，它並不只是一個人們擁有的「思維」(thought)，它已變成他們實實在在的「實相」(reality)。
這個「實相」進一步肯定了那原始思維，惡性循環於是被創造出來了。思維(想法)先於實相而創造實相。實相肯定思維而强化該思維(模式) (Thought precedes reality, and creates it. Reality confirms thought, and reinforces it.)。該思維又進一步地創造出該實相形態、而更進一步地創造該思維模式、而又更進一步地創造該實相形態，很快地，整個地方都陷入其幻覺中在打轉。在「愛麗絲漫游仙境」的世界裡，每個人會發誓說什麼是真實的並非真實，而什麼並非真實卻是真實的。
「名與利並非人生所有快樂的源頭」是真實的，而年長的成人們說，他們了解這點——然後他們繼續表現得好像「名與利是人生快樂的源頭」是真實的。他們說的是一回事，做的是另一回事。
你們年紀較輕的成人沒有這樣的言行。你們知道真相，你們並不需要金錢或物質上的成功才能快樂，不嚮往「爬上企業階梯」。
摘自《與神對話青春版》第5章
Neale: Why does world have its priorities so mixed up? Are teenagers the only ones who know what’s really important, and that it’s not”Making Money”, or “Getting to the top”, or “Being famous”, or any of those things?
Sometimes it does seem as though young people are far more in touch with what’s truly important in life, given how the human race it- self says it wishes to experience life.
Older adults often say one thing and do another. They say they want to live long and healthy and happy lives, for instance, and then they smoke and drink and put themselves under incredible stress striving to acquire and accumulate things that, to younger people, have no meaning.
This pushing and straining to “get ahead” or even to just “stay afloat” is behavior based in fear—something that younger people do not have much of. The fear is, of course, that there is “not enough,” as I pointed out earlier.
This fear is lived so completely that it actually becomes part of the human experience at many times and in many places. In other words, it’s not just a “thought” that people have, it has become their on-the-ground reality.
This “reality” then reconfirms the original thought, and a vicious circle has been created. Thought precedes reality, and creates it. Reality confirms thought, and reinforces it. Thought creates further reality, creating further thought, creating further reality, and pretty soon the whole place is spinning in its illusions, living in an Alice in Wonderland world where everyone will swear that what is real is NOT real, and that what is NOT real is real.
It is not real that “fame and fortune” are the source of all happiness in life, and older adults say they know this—then they go ahead and behave as if it were real anyway. They say one thing, and do another.
You younger adults are having none of it. You know the truth, you have no need for money and material success, no yearning to “climb the corporate ladder.”
