STEP 27 I HAVE A WISDOM THAT I WISH TO DISCOVER.

THIS AFFIRMATION REPRESENTS YOUR TRUE WILL. If you are not feeling this, it means that you are entertaining something that is false and without true foundation in your being. If you have ever felt that the truth betrayed you, then you have not recognized its value. Perhaps it disappointed your plans and goals. Perhaps you lost something you really wanted. Perhaps it prevented you from seeking something that was desirable. But in all cases it has saved you from pain and misery. Until your true function has been recognized, you cannot appreciate how the truth has served you, for until your function is discovered, you will attempt to claim and justify other functions. If these other functions are discouraged or denied by the truth, there can be great confusion and conflict. Yet remember that the truth has always saved you from a greater error that you would have committed otherwise.

这个肯定表达了你的真实意愿。如果你没有这种感觉，那说明你正在容纳一些虚假的、在你的存在中没有真实基础的关系。如果你曾经觉得真理背叛了你，那是因为你没有认识到它的价值。也许它让你的计划和目标受挫，也许你失去了某个你真正想要的关系，也许它阻止了你追求某个渴望的事物。但在所有情况下，它都救你脱离了痛苦和悲惨。在你的真实职能被认识到之前，你无法体会到真理对你的帮助，因为在你发现自己的职能之前，你会试图追求并证明其他职能的合理性。如果这些其他职能被真理否决或打压，会引发极大的困惑和冲突。然而，请记住，真理总是会拯救你免于犯下更大的错误。

PEOPLE CANNOT EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE because they are preoccupied with thoughts and judgments. These thoughts and judgments create a self-enclosed world for an individual, a selfenclosed world where they cannot see out. They can only see the content of their thoughts and this colors their experience of life entirely, so much so that they cannot see life at all.

人们无法体验到内识，因为他们专注于思维和判断。这些思维和判断为个人创造了一个自我封闭的世界，在这个自我封闭的世界中，他们无法看到外面的世界。他们只能看到自己的思维内容，而这些内容完全影响了他们对生命的体验，以至于他们根本看不到生命。

THEREFORE, IN YOUR TWO 30-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIODS, look and see how the truth has served you. Look at experiences that were happy. Look at experiences that were painful. Particularly in painful experiences, look at how the truth has served you. Look openly. Do not defend a former position if you are tempted to do so. If pain still exists from a loss of an earlier time, accept that pain and its discouragement, but try to look and see how you were truly served by that loss.

因此，在两次30分钟的练习中，看看真理是如何帮助你的。看看那些快乐的经历，也看看那些痛苦的经历。尤其是在痛苦的经历中，看看真理是如何帮助你的。开放地看，不要去捍卫过去的立场，即使你被诱惑去这样做。如果过去的损失仍然让你痛苦，接受那种痛苦和失望，但尝试去看看那次损失是如何真实帮助你的。

THIS POINT OF VIEW OF BEING SERVED by your experience is something you must cultivate. It does not justify the experience itself. Understand this. It merely gives you an opportunity to use your experience for your advancement and your empowerment. Truth operates in the world of illusions to help those who are responding to truth in their lives. You are responding to truth or you would not be undertaking this program of development. Thus, you have arrived at the juncture where it seems that the truth competes with other things and is, therefore, very hard to recognize. In this program of development, the truth will be distinguished from everything else in such a way that you can experience it directly and will not be confused about its appearance or its beneficial existence in your life. For the truth is here to serve you as you are here to serve the truth.

这种从经验中获得服务的观点需要你培养。请理解，它并不为经验本身辩护。它只是给你一个机会来利用你的经验来提升自己并增强自己的力量。真理在虚幻的世界中运作，以帮助那些在生活中回应真理的人。你正在回应真理，否则你不会开始这个发展计划。因此，你已经到达一个似乎真理与其他事物竞争的节点，因此很难辨认。通过这个发展计划，真理会与其他一切区分开来，以便你能直接体验到它，并不会对它的出现或它对你生活的有益存在感到困惑。因为真理在此是为了帮助你，就像你在此是为了帮助真理。

PRACTICE 27: Two 30-minute practice periods.

练习27：两个30分钟的练习时段