Chapter 1
第一章
INTRODUCTION TO MIRACLES
奇迹导言
This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you may elect what you want to take at a given time.
这个奇迹课程,是一门必修课。 但你投入的时间是自愿的。 自由意志并不意味着您可以自己创立一个课程。 这仅意味着您可以在给定的时间选择想要的内容。
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s Presence, Which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
本课程的目的不是教授爱的含义,因为这超出了可教导的范围。 但是,它的目的确实是消除对爱的存在的阻碍;而爱是您的自然具备的禀赋。 爱的对立面,就是恐惧,但是无所不包之物却没有对立面。
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
因此,本课程可以简单地归纳为下面这几句话:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the Peace of God.
凡真实的,不受任何威胁;
凡不真实的,皆为虚幻。
神的平安,如是存在。