Lesson 130
It is impossible to see two worlds.
- impossible [impάsəbl] : 「不可能な、できない」
1. Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.
- perception [pərsépʃən] : 「知覚、知見、感じ方」
- consistent [kənsístənt] : 「一貫性のある、矛盾しない」
- reflect [riflékt] : 「〜を映す、示す、反映する」
- choice [tʃɔ́is] : 「選ぶこと、選択」
Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there.
- value [vǽljuː] : 「価値、値打ち」
- determiner [ditə́ːrmənər] : 「決定するもの」
No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.
- accord [əkɔ́ːrd] : 「〜を〜と一致させる、調和させる」
- fail [féil] : 「失敗する、しくじる」
2. Yet who can really hate and love at once? Who can desire what he does not want to have reality? And who can choose to see a world of which he is afraid?
- hate [héit] : 「〜を憎む、〜をひどく嫌う」
- at once : 「すぐに、同時に」
- desire [dizáiər] : 「〜が欲しいと強く思う」
- choose [tʃúːz] : 「 〜を選ぶ、〜を選択する」
- afraid [əfréid] : 「恐れて、怖がって」
Fear must make blind, for this its weapon is: That which you fear to see you cannot see.
- fear [fíər] : 「恐れ、恐怖、不安」
- blind [bláind] : 「目の見えない、盲目の」
- weapon [wépn] : 「武器、兵器、凶器」
- that which : 「《関係代名詞》〜するもの、関係詞whatと同義」
Love and perception thus go hand in hand, but fear obscures in darkness what is there.
- hand in hand : 「手をとり合って、関連して」
- obscure [əbskjúər] : 「〜を曖昧にする、見えなくする」
3. What, then, can fear project upon the world? What can be seen in darkness that is real?
- project [prɑ́dʒekt] : 「〜を投影する、映し出す」
Truth is eclipsed by fear, and what remains is but imagined. Yet what can be real in blind imaginings of panic born?
- eclipse [iklíps] : 「暗くする、〜の輝きを失わせる」
- remain [riméin] : 「残る、生き残る」
- imagine [imǽdʒin] : 「想像する、心に描く」
- blind [bláind] : 「目の見えない、盲目の」
- imaginings [imǽdʒəniŋz] : 「想像上の物」
- panic [pǽnik] : 「恐慌、恐怖」
- born [bɔ́ːrn] : 「生まれる、誕生する」
What would you want that this is shown to you? What would you wish to keep in such a dream?
- shown [ʃóun] : 「showの過去分詞」
4. Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world.
- separation [sèpəréiʃən] : 「分離、区別、離脱」
- distinction [distíŋkʃən] : 「差異、区別」
- multitude [mʌ́ltətjùːd] : 「多数、大勢、群衆」
- difference [dífərəns] : 「相違、相違点、差別」
- make up : 「作り出す、捏造する、でっちあげる」
They are not there. Love's enemy has made them up. Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence.
- enemy [énəmi] : 「敵、かたき」
- cause [kɔ́ːz] : 「原因、要因、理由」
- consequence [kάnsəkwèns] : 「結果、結論」
They can be valued, but remain unreal. They can be sought, but they can not be found.
- value [vǽljuː] : 「〜を高く評価する、〜を尊重する」
- remain [riméin] : 「依然として〜のままである」
- unreal [ʌnríəl] : 「実在しない、虚偽の」
- sought [sɔ́ːt] : 「seek の過去・過去分詞形」
- found [fáund] : 「findの過去・過去分詞形」
Today we will not seek for them, nor waste this day in seeking what can not be found.
- seek for : 「〜を探し求める」
- waste [wéist] : 「〜を無駄にする、浪費する」
5. It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. Seek for the one; the other disappears. But one remains.
- overlap [òuvərlǽp] : 「重複、重なり」
- of any kind : 「いかなる種類の」
- disappear [dìsəpíər] : 「存在しなくなる、消滅する」
They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go.
- range [réindʒ] : 「範囲、距離、限界、領域」
- choice [tʃɔ́is] : 「選ぶこと、選択」
- beyond [bijάnd] : 「〜の向こうに、〜を越えて」
- decision [disíʒən] : 「決定、決断、決心」
The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.
- choose between : 「〜のどちらかを選ぶ」
6. Today we will attempt no compromise where none is possible.
- attempt [ətémpt] : 「〜を試してみる、〜を企てる」
- compromise [kɑ́mprəmàiz] : 「 妥協、譲歩」
The world you see is proof you have already made a choice as all-embracing as its opposite.
- proof [prúːf] : 「証拠、証明、証し」
- already [ɔːlrédi] : 「すでに、とっくに〜済み」
- embrace [imbréis] : 「囲む、包含する」
- opposite [άpəzit] : 「反対、正反対」
What we would learn today is more than just the lesson that you cannot see two worlds.
- learn [lə́ːrn] : 「学ぶ、知る」
It also teaches that the one you see is quite consistent from the point of view from which you see it.
- consistent [kənsístənt] : 「一貫性のある、矛盾しない」
- point of view : 「観点、視点、見方、見解、考え方」
It is all a piece because it stems from one emotion, and reflects its source in everything you see.
- piece [píːs] : 「一かけら、一片、断片」
- stem [stém] from : 「〜から生じる、〜から起こる」
- emotion [imóuʃən] : 「感情、感性」
- reflect [riflékt] : 「〜を映す、反映する」
- source [sɔ́ːrs] : 「もと、源、起源」
7. Six times today, in thanks and gratitude, we gladly give five minutes to the thought that ends all compromise and doubt, and go beyond them all as one.
- thank [θǽŋk] : 「感謝、謝意」
- gratitude [ɡrǽtətjùːd] : 「感謝、感謝の気持ち」
- gladly [ɡlǽd] : 「喜んで、喜々として」
- thought [θɔ́ːt] : 「思い、考え、思考」
- compromise [kɑ́mprəmàiz] : 「妥協、譲歩」
- doubt [dáut] : 「疑い、疑念、心配、不安」
- as one : 「一つになって、一斉に」
We will not make a thousand meaningless distinctions, nor attempt to bring with us a little part of unreality, as we devote our minds to finding only what is real.
- thousand [θáuzənz] : 「1000、1000個」
- meaningless [míːniŋlis] : 「意味のない、無意味な」
- distinction [distíŋkʃən] : 「差異、区別」
- attempt [ətémpt] : 「試み、企て」
- bring [bríŋ] : 「〜を連れて行く」
- unreality [ʌnriǽləti] : 「非現実性、実在しないもの」
- devote [divóut] : 「向ける、ささげる、専念させる」
8. Begin your searching for the other world by asking for a strength beyond your own, and recognizing what it is you seek.
- ask for : 「〜を求める、〜を要求する」
- strength [stréŋkθ] : 「力、強さ」
- recognize [rékəɡnàiz] : 「〜を認識する、受け入れる」
You do not want illusions. And you come to these five minutes emptying your hands of all the petty treasures of this world.
- illusion [ilúːʒən] : 「幻想、幻覚、錯覚」
- empty [émpti] : 「空にする」
- petty [péti] : 「わずかな、小さい、けちな」
- treasure [tréʒər] : 「宝、富、宝物、財宝」
You wait for God to help you, as you say:
It is impossible to see two worlds.
Let me accept the strength God offers
me and see no value in this world,
that I may find my freedom and deliverance.
- wait for : 「〜を待つ」
- offer [ɔ́fər] : 「差し出す、捧げる」
- deliverance [dilívərəns] : 「救出、解放」
9. God will be there. For you have called upon the great unfailing power which will take this giant step with you in gratitude.
- call upon : 「求める、要求する」
- unfailing [ʌ̀nféiliŋ] : 「信頼できる、失敗しない」
- gratitude [ɡrǽtətjùːd] : 「感謝、感謝の気持ち」
Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth.
- express [iksprés] : 「表す、示す、表現する」
- tangible [tǽndʒəbl] : 「理解できる、明らかな」
- perception [pərsépʃən] : 「知覚、認知、知見」
You will not doubt what you will look upon, for though it is perception, it is not the kind of seeing that your eyes alone have ever seen before.
- doubt [dáut] : 「〜を疑問に思う、疑う」
- look upon : 「〜を見る」
- kind of : 「〜のような種類の」
And you will know God's strength upheld you as you made this choice.
- upheld [ʌ̀phéld] : 「upholdの過去・過去分詞形」
- uphold [ʌ̀phóuld] : 「支持する、支える、守る」
10. Dismiss temptation easily today whenever it arises, merely by remembering the limits of your choice.
- dismiss [dismís] : 「追放する、退ける」
- temptation [temptéiʃən] : 「誘惑、衝動」
- arise [əráiz] : 「起こる、生じる、現れる」
- merely [míərli] : 「ただ単に、単に」
- limit [límit] : 「限度、制限、境界、限界」
The unreal or the real, the false or true is what you see and only what you see.
- false [fɔ́ːls] : 「誤った、虚偽の、偽の」
Perception is consistent with your choice, and hell or Heaven comes to you as one.
- consistent [kənsístənt] with : 「〜と一致する」
- hell [hél] : 「地獄、生き地獄、修羅場」
- as one : 「一つになって、一体となって」
11. Accept a little part of hell as real, and you have damned your eyes and cursed your sight, and what you will behold is hell indeed.
- accept [æksépt] : 「承認する、認める、受け入れる」
- damn [dǽm] : 「〜を呪う、破滅させる」
- curse [kə́ːrs] : 「〜を呪う、〜に悪態を付く」
- sight [sáit] : 「視力、視覚、視野、視界」
Yet the release of Heaven still remains within your range of choice, to take the place of everything that hell would show to you.
- release [rilíːs] : 「救出、解放」
- remain [riméin] : 「とどまる、残る、残存する」
- range [réindʒ] : 「範囲、距離、限界、領域」
- take the place of : 「〜の代わりをする、〜に取って代わる」
All you need say to any part of hell, whatever form it takes, is simply this:
It is impossible to see two worlds.
I seek my freedom and deliverance,
and this is not a part of what I want.
- whatever [hwʌtévər] : 「どんな〜が〜でも」
- form [fɔ́ːrm] : 「形、外形、現れ、姿」
- deliverance [dilívərəns] : 「救出、解放」
