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True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions which are disagreeable; but what is the use of studying them when they are certainly passing away, and when the study of them only tends to check their passing and keep them with us? Why give time and attention to things which are being removed by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only by promoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?
誠然，這個世界上的確存在許多悲觀黑暗的現象以及種種消極的思想，與我上文中的描述并不十分吻合。但是，當它們已經成為過去時，我們再回過頭去研究它們，研究的結果不過是證明它們已經成為歷史，而最后的結果就是我們永遠牢記這段歷史。如果真是如此，我想問問大家，這樣的研究對現實有任何作用和實際意義嗎？如果我們完全有能力推動宇宙進化的歷程，而進化本身就具有去除世間種種黑暗或悲觀現象的功能，那么，我們為什么非要將時間和精力全都用于研究那些行將作古，或是已經在進化歷程當中消失的事物和現象呢？
No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certain countries, sections, or places, you waste your time and destroy your own chances by considering them.
當今世上的某些國家和地區的確存在些許讓人痛心的事物和現象，可是，無論它們如何令人痛心疾首，如何不堪，如果你只是一味地沉浸在對這些悲慘現象和黑暗事物的哀悼和思考里，不僅于事無補，而且只會白白浪費你的時間和精力，甚至還會讓你與某些寶貴的機會失之交臂。
You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich. Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of, and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creative method - not the competitive one.
忘掉那個只有貧窮、黑暗和痛苦的世界，取而代之以一一個富足、幸福和美好的世界吧！請牢記一條真理：你能夠幫助這個世界擺脫貧窮的惟一辦法，就是通過創造性的勞動讓自己先富起來一競 爭從來都不是，將來也不會是致富的良策。
Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.
你應該把注意力完全集中在美好的財富上，忘記或忽略貧窮的存在！
Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of them as those who are becoming rich; as those who are to be congratulated rather than pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin to search for the way out.
無論何時，你一想到或談論到窮人，就請務必告訴自己，他們事實上是一群正在向財富掌近的幸運兒，同時，也請不要忘記將自己對他們的憐憫之心轉變為祝賀之情。如此一來，他們自然就能從中獲取致富的靈感，開始探尋擺脫貧窮的出路。
Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches, it does not follow that you are to be sordid or mean.
我再重申一遍，你將所有的時間、精力和思想全都投入到財富里，漠視貧窮，這并不意味著你就是個吝尚冷醋的人。
To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes everything else.
請相信，獲取財富是你一生當中最崇高的目標，因為它包含了人生的所有生活目標。
On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed.
從競爭者的角度來看，只有那些信念不強的人，才會選擇通過不正當競爭這種方式，攫取原本屬于他人的財富。然而，如果我們能夠讓創造的思想在腦海里生根發芽，那情況就完全不一樣了。
All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of service and lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible by the use of things.
一切美好的事物，高尚的服務以至于陶冶心靈，都是以獲取財富為首要前提。只有借助于其他事物，我們才有可能實現那些美好的目標。
If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it is conditional on your getting rich.
如果你覺得自己的身體不夠健康，你會發現自己的健康程度原來也取決于財富的多寡。
Only those who are emancipated from financial wony, and who have the means to live a care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have and retain health.
只有那些沒有經濟煩惱，按照健康的生活方式生活得無憂無慮的人才能享受健康的體魄。
Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above the competitive battle for existence; and only those who are becoming rich on the plane of creative thought are free from the degrading influences of competition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that love flourishes best where there is refinement, a high level of thought, and freedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only where riches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife or rivalry.
只有那些遠離了不正當的競爭，遠離了不道德的激戰的人，才是一個道德和精神雙重高尚的人，而只有那些通過創造成功致富的人，才能遠離諸如此類的不良影響。如果你是一個重視家庭幸福的人，那么，請記住，溫馨的愛只有在高雅、高尚、不受世俗的競爭思想影響的家庭氛圍中才能洶涌澎湃，而財富就是世間惟一種能夠締造這一切的偉大力量，只不過，請不要忘了，這里說的財富只能來自于創造性的思想和行動，而決不能是任何形式的不正當競爭或斗爭。
You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; and you must fix your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to the exclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.
我再強調一次，這世上再也沒有比獲取財富更偉大、更高尚的目標了。你必須將所有的精力，全都凝聚在腦海中的那幅關于財富夢想的藍圖上，決不能讓它出現半點模糊的跡象，更不能對它有絲毫的懷疑。
You must leam to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must see beneath all seemingly wrong conditions, the Great One Life ever moving forward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness.
你必須學會透過表象看本質的本領：你必須看清楚在各種貌似錯誤的表象的掩蓋下，世界上那些偉大的生命休是如何孜孜不倦地探尋更完整的生活方式，追求更高層次的快樂。
It is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty; that there is only wealth.
世上本沒有貧窮，只有財富。這就是真理。
