...I shouldn't try to figure out what's best for me?
"Best" is a relative term, depending on a hundred variables. That makes choices very difficult. There should be only one consideration when making any decision -
Is this a statement of Who I Am? Is this an announcement of Who I Choose to Be?
All of life should be such an announcement. In fact, all of life is. You can allow that announcement to be made by chance or by choice.
A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.
Reaction is just that - an action you have taken before. When you "re-act", what you do is assess the incoming data, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the work of the mind, not of your soul.
Your soul would have you search its "memory" to see how you might create a truly genuine experience of You in the Now moment. This is the experience of "soul searching" of which you have so often heard, but you have to be literally "out of your mind" to do it.
It is a great time-saver to be out of your mind. Decisions are reached quickly, choices are activated rapidly, because your soul creates out of present experience only, without review, analysis, and criticism of past encounters.
Remember this: the soul creates, the mind reacts.
The soul knows in its wisdom that the experience you are having in This Moment is an experience sent to you by God before you had any conscious awareness of it. This is what is meant by a "pre-sent" experience. It's already on the way to you even as you are seeking it - for even before you ask, I shall have answered you. Every Now Moment is a glorious gift from God. That's why it is called the present.
The soul intuitively seeks the perfect circumstance and situation now needed to heal wrong thought and bring you the rightful experience of Who You Really Are.
It is the soul's desire to bring you back to God - to bring you home to Me. It is the soul's intention to know itself experientially - and thus to know Me. For the soul understands that You and I are One, even as the mind denies this truth and the body acts out this denial.
Therefore in the moment of great decision, be out of your mind and do some soul searching instead.
The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.
If you spend your time trying to figure out what's "best" for you, your choices will be cautious, you decisions will take forever and your journey will be launched on a sea of expectations. If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectation.
Whew! That's quite an answer! But how do I listen to my soul? How do I know what I'm hearing?
The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen to your feelings. Follow your feelings. Honor your feelings.
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Excerpt from Conversations with God
Author: Neale Donald Walsch
Translator: Li Jihong
(the conversation on "feelings" goes on, please email me if you are interested to read the rest paragraphs. :)
……我不该试图弄清楚什么对我是最好的？
“最好”是个相对的词汇。它有一百种含义。这让选择变得非常困难。当你做决定时，要考虑的因素应该只有一个：
这是我的身份的声明吗？这是我选择的身份的宣言吗？
生活中的一切都应该成为这样的宣言。实际上，生活中的一切都是。你可以通过选择，或者通过机缘做出这种宣言。
依照选择而过的生活是一种有意识地去行动的生活。（境随心转）
听机缘而过的生活是一种无意识地去反应的生活。（心随境转）
反应无非就是那样 - 采取你以前有过的行动。当你做出反应，你只是权衡接受到的信息，搜索你的记忆库，寻找相同或近乎相同的经验，然后依照你以前的做法去采取行动。这时发挥作用的是你的精神，而不是你的灵魂。
你的灵魂将会让你搜索它的“记忆”，看看如何才能在此时创造出真正适合你的真实经验。这种经验就是你经常听说的“灵魂搜索”，但你必须超越你的精神才能做得到。
超越你的精神能够为你节省大量的时间。决定很快被达成，选择很快被实施，因为你的灵魂无需回顾，分享和评判过去的遭遇。你的灵魂只根据当前的经验来进行创造。
请记住这个道理：灵魂创造，精神反应。
灵魂清楚地知道，你在此时拥有的经验，是神在你意识到这种经验之前就指派给你的。你的经验都是神提前送给你的。甚至在你尚在寻找它的时候，它就已经踏上前来找你的道理 - 因为甚至在你要求之前，我就已经给予。每个此时都是神光荣的馈赠。所以在英文中，此时也被称为礼物（present）.
灵魂本能地寻找此时所需的完美境遇，以便疗愈错误的思维，让你恰到好处地经验到你真实地身份。灵魂的欲望是将你带回到神身边 - 把你带回家，带到我身边。灵魂的意图是通过经验认识其自身 - 从而认识我。因为灵魂明白你和我是一体，即使精神否认这个真相，即使身体执行这种否认。
因此，当你要做重大决定的时候，请超越你的精神，去搜索你的灵魂。
灵魂明白精神无法理解的道理。
如果你总是试图弄清楚什么对你来说是“最好的”， 你的选择将会提心吊胆，你的决定将会犹疑不定，你的航程将会驶入一片期望的海洋。如果你不小心提防，你将会被你的期望淹没。
哇！这个答案太好了！但我要怎样倾听我的灵魂呢？我要怎样才知道我在聆听呢？
灵魂通过感受对你说话。倾听你的感受。听从你的感受。尊重你的感受。
……
节选自《与神对话》
作者：尼尔· 唐纳德 · 沃尔什
译者：李继宏
（关于感受的话题，书中还有更多阐述。若您感兴趣阅读，请与我邮件联系。：）
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