「天堂」被供稱為你們在地球上時所做過的一切事，以及沒做你們「不該做」的事的最終報酬。所以，你們認為必定也有一個地方，是給那些沒有做好事，或做了他們不該做的事的人去的地方。你們稱這地方為「地獄」。

 

現在，我就是要來告訴你們這件事：並沒有「地獄」這樣一個地方。地獄是一種存在(being)的狀態。它是與神分離的經驗，一種你們想像「你與你自己(Self)分離，並且無法再結合」的狀態。地獄是永遠在試圖找尋你自己。

 

你們所謂的天堂，也是一種being的狀態。它是「一體」的經驗，它是再次與一切萬有結合的狂喜。它是知曉真正的自己。

 

 

到天堂並沒有任何的必備資格。因為天堂並不是一個「你要到達」的地方，而是一個「你永遠在其內」的地方。然而，你可以身在天堂（與一切合一）卻不知道。真的，你們大多數人都是如此。 

 

然而這是可以改變的，但不是以「你在做(doing)什麼」。它只能夠以「你being什麼」來改變。

 

這就是「沒有什麼是你必須去做的事」的意思。除了「是(be)」之外，沒有什麼得去「做」的事。(There is nothing to do but be.)

 

而只除了「一體」之外，沒有什麼得去「成為(be)」。(There is nothing to be but One.)

 

Heaven has been held out as your eternal reward for all the things you have done while on Earth—and for not doing the things you were “not supposed to do.” So you have decided that there must also be a place for people who have not done good things, or who have done things they were not supposed to do. You have called this place hell.

 

Now I come to tell you this: There is no such place as hell.

 

Hell is a state of being. It is the experience of separation from God, an imagining that you are separate from your very self and cannot be reunited. Hell is forever trying to find your self.

 

What you have called heaven, too, is a state of being. It is the experience of Oneness, the ecstasy of reunification with All That Is. It is the knowing of the true self.

 

There are no requirements for heaven. That is because heaven is not a place that you get to, it is a place that you are in, always. Yet you can be in heaven (Oneness with All) and not know it. Indeed, most of you are.

 

This can be changed, but not by something you are doing. It can only be changed by something that you are being.

 

This is what is meant by, “There is nothing you have to do.” There is nothing to do but be. And there is nothing to be but One.