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You need not hesitate about asking largely;
你不需要因为自己的任何愿望或欲望而感到迟疑。
"It is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom, " said Jesus.
《圣经》中基督耶稣曾经说过:“将这个王国赐予子民是主的意愿。
Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants you to have all that you can or will use for the living of the most abundant life.
源物质会通过一切可能与你同在，并且会让你得到一切你能够得到的，或是任何能帮助你获得真正生活的东西。
If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for the possession of riches is one with the desire of Omnipotence for more complete expression, your faith becomes invincible.
你必须知道，你对财富的渴望是这世间最自然，也是最崇高的渴望，只要你能够坚信这一点，你的思想就会变得坚不可摧。
Once I saw a lttle boy sitting at a piano,
我曾经看到过这样一幅场景:一个小男孩坐在钢琴边弹琴，
and vainly trying to bring harmony out of the keys; and I saw that he was grieved and provoked by his inability to play real music.
可无论他如何努力，他就是无法让琴键在他的蔽击下演獒出和谐的音乐，这不禁让他感到很懊恼，甚至有些气愤。
I asked him the cause of his vexation,
我问他为什么会如此沮丧，
and he answered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right."
他回答说:“我能够感受到乐谱就在我心中，我甚至可以倒背如流，可我的指法却老是出错，无法将它演奏好。”
The music in him was the URGE of Original Substance, containing all the possibilities of all life;
他心中的音乐就是源物质渴望改善生命的强烈欲望，这其中也包含了生活中存在的种种可能性，
all that there is of music was seeking expression through the child.
而那个小男孩所做的一切则是想将其心中的音乐梦想表达出来。
God, the One Substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity.
造物主也是世间的一种物质，他试图通过自己的仁慈和博爱让世界变得更加和谐美好。
He is saying "I want hands to build wonderful structures, to play divine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures;
他说，“我要用我的双手建造出壮观的建筑，演奏出神圣和谐的乐曲，绘制出世闻最美丽的图画。
I want feet to run my errands, eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marvelous songs," and so on.
我要让我的双腿听凭差遣，让我的双眼欣赏我创造的美，让我亲口说出那万能的真理，放声歌唱”等等。
All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men.
等到那时，生活的各种可能性都将通过人类而实现。
God wants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument,
在造物主的安排下，那些喜欢音乐的人将会得到钢琴等各种乐器，并同时获得学习演奏这些乐器的机会，
and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent;
让自己的音乐才能得以充分的展现;
He wants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves with beautiful things;
那些懂得欣赏美的人则会生活在一片美好事物的海洋里，
He wants those who can discern truth to have every opportunity to travel and observe;
那些能够明辨真理的人将有机会周游世界，让他们有机会用心去观察这个世界;
He wants those who can appreciate dress to be beautifully clothed,
而那些对服装有着高尚品位的人，将会源源不断地拥有这个世界上最美丽的衣衫;
and those who can appreciate good food to be luxuriously fed.
至于那些对美食情有独钟的人，则能够顿顿鑒餮，尽享天下美食。
He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciates them;
造物主这样做的原因很简单，因为归根结底，欣赏和享受这一切的恰恰就是他，
it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods.
他不过是通过人类来表达自已想演奏乐器，想唱歌，想欣赏美，想明辨真理，想穿漂亮衣服，想吃美食的种种愿望。
"It is God that worketh in you to will and to do," said Paul.
保罗说过，“你所有的意志、欲望乃至行动皆源自于宇宙。”
The desire you feel for riches is the infinite,
你身体里对财富的欲望就好比一道永远无法填满的沟渠，
seeking to express Himself in you as He sought to find expression in the little boy at the piano.
对此，你无须感到丝毫的愧疚或不安，因为这是造物主在借助于你来表达其自身的愿望，就好像他通过那个小男孩来表达他对音乐的渴望一样。
So you need not hesitate to ask largely.
所以，在面对自己的渴望时，你根本无须有任何顾忌或迟疑。
Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God.
你需要做的就是大胆地将自己的各种愿望和欲望告诉造物主。
This is a difficult point with most people;
对绝大多数人而言，这样做的确有些困难，
they retain something of the old idea that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God.
因为他们仍然无法摆脱过去那些旧思想对他们的影响，依然认为贫穷与自我牺牲才能够取悦造物主。
They look upon poverty as a part of the plan, a necessity of nature.
他们将贫穷视为生活中必不可少的组成部分。
They have the idea that God has finished His work, and made all that He can make,
他们认为造物主已经完成了自己的工作，竭尽全力做到了他能够做到的一切，
and that the majority of men must stay poor because there is not enough to go around.
但仍然无法让人类可利用的资源变得更丰富，正因为如此大多数人才不得不停留在贫穷的阶段。
They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to ask for wealth;
他们如此坚信这一古老的信念，以至于常常会为自已想得到更多财富的念头感到羞愧。
they try not to want more than a very modest competence, just enough to make them fairly comfortable.
他们尝试着不让自己有更多的欲望，努力说服自已安于现状。
I recall now the case of one student who as told that he must get in mind a clear picture of the things he desired,
说到这儿，我想起曾经有一个学生对我说，他必须时刻保持清醒的头脑，清楚地知道自己究竞想要什么，并把这一切深深地刻在脑海里，
so that the creative thought of them might be impressed on Formless Substance.
这样，这些事物的那些极具创造力的思想就有可能能够作用于无形的物质。
He was a very poor man, living in a rented house, and having only what he earned from day to day;
说这些话的时候，他还很穷，住在一间租来的房子里，家里所有的一切都是他靠微薄的薪水慢慢积攒起来的。
and he could not grasp the fact that all wealth was his.
那时候，他还根本不知道那些他想得到的财富原本就是属于他的。
So, after thinking the matter over, he decided that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for the floor of his best room,
有一天，经过反复的考虑之后，他决定为家中最好的房间添置一张新地毯，
and an anthracite coal stove to heat the house during the cold weather.
同时再买一个无烟煤炉以抵御寒冷的天气。
Following the instructions given in this book, he obtained these things in a few months;
按照书中所示，几个月之后，他如愿以偿地得到了地毯和无烟炉。
and then it dawned upon him that he had not asked enough.
这不禁让他明白了一个道理:他要求的还远远不够。
He went through the house in which he lived, and planned all the improvements he would like to make in it;
于是，他环视了一遍自己居住的房间，然后列出了所有可以提升其生活品质的物品名称。
he mentaly added a bay window here and a room there, until it was complete in his mind as his ideal home;
在他的脑海里，一幅全新的生活场景逐渐成型。
and then he planned its furnishings.
然后，他开始设计各种家具的摆设。
Holding the whole picture in his mind, he began living in the Certain Way, and moving toward what he wanted;
这幅场景彻底改变了他的生活方式，他开始逐渐地向自己向往的生活靠近。
and he owns the house now, and is rebuilding it after the form of his mental image.
现在，他不仅买下了这间房子，而且还按照自己脑海中的场景对它进行了改造。
And now, with still larger faith, he is going on to get greater things.
不过，他并未因此而停止信念的脚步。
It has been unto him according to his faith,
一切都正按照他所设想的那样一点一点地实现。
and it is so with you and with all of us.
其实，你，乃至这世上所有的人都能像他那样，得到自己想要的东西。
