105、那些以爱自己爱世界为目的的人绝无可能处于仁爱的状态。他们甚至不知道何为仁爱，并且根本不明白，不以回报为目的而向邻舍意愿并实行良善就是人里面的天堂，这种情感里面有一种幸福，这种幸福与无法形容的天堂天使的幸福一样大。因为他们以为，如果他们被剥夺了从拥有尊贵和财富中所获得的喜乐，就再也不可能有任何喜乐了。然而，这却是天堂喜乐刚刚开始的时候，这种喜乐无限超越其它喜乐。
《属天的奥秘》摘录
105、人若以爱自己和爱世界为目标，他的生命中就不可能有仁爱。他们甚至不知道仁爱是什么。他们完全不理解，对友邻心怀善意并践行良善而不求回报，是因为心中有天堂。他们也无法理解，践行良善的内在幸福感如此美好，和天堂的天使感受一样，无可言喻。因为如果自私和属世之人，被剥夺了从炫耀荣誉和财富而来的快乐，他们就再无快乐可言。于此可见天堂之快乐源于何处，这种快乐无边无际。
摘自《属天的奥秘》
105. If people set loving themselves and the world as their goal there is no way they can live a life of caring. They do not even know what caring is. Further, they completely fail to grasp the fact that intending and doing good for their neighbor without a goal of being rewarded for it is a heaven inside them-that inherent in this desire there is as great a happiness as heaven's angels have: more than words can convey. This is because selfish and worldly people believe that if they were deprived of the joy they take in their display of prestige and wealth they would no longer have any joy at all, when in fact that would be the beginning of an infinitely transcendent heavenly joy.
105. When selfishness and materialism are our reasons for doing things, we cannot possibly be kind people. We do not even know what kindness is. We have no concept at all that wanting and doing good things for other people — and not just to get something out of it — is heaven in us. We cannot comprehend that there could be as much happiness in the desire to do good things as the angels in heaven have — and the happiness of the angels cannot even be described! We think that if the enjoyment from the prestige of status and wealth were taken away from us, there would be nothing left to enjoy. Actually, that is where heavenly enjoyment first begins — and it is infinitely greater.
105. Those who have self-love and love of the world as their end in view cannot possibly be in a state of charity. They do not even know what charity is; and they totally fail to grasp that willing and doing good to the neighbour without seeking reward makes heaven in a person, and this is an affection that brings happiness as great as that of the angels in heaven, which is past description. For they think that if they are robbed of the joy they get from the glory of possessing honours and wealth, there is no further joy possible. Yet this is when heavenly joy first begins, and this is infinitely greater.
105. They who have the love of self and the world for all end, cannot possibly be in charity. They do not even know what charity is, and cannot comprehend at all that heaven in a man consists in willing and doing good to the neighbour apart from any view to reward; and that as great a felicity is inherent in this affection as belongs to the angels in heaven, which felicity is ineffable. For they believe that should they be deprived of the joyous feeling arising from the glory of places of honour and wealth, no further joy would be left; when yet heavenly joy, which infinitely exceeds [all other joys] only then commences.
105. They who have the love of self and of the world for an end, cannot in any wise be in charity; they do not even know what charity is; and they cannot at all comprehend that to will and do good to the neighbor without reward as an end, is heaven in man, and that there is in that affection a happiness as great as that of the angels of heaven, which is ineffable; for they believe, if they are deprived of the joy from the glory of honors and riches, that nothing of joy can be given them any longer; when yet it is then that heavenly joy first begins, which infinitely transcends the other.
105. Illi quibus amor sui et (amor) mundi pro fine sunt, nequaquam possunt in charitate esse; ne quidem sciunt quid charitas; et prorsus non comprehendunt quod velle et facere bonum proximo absque fine mercedis sit caelum in homine, et quod illi affectioni insit tanta felicitas quanta est angelorum caeli, quae ineffabilis; nam credunt, si privantur gaudio ex gloria honorum et opum, quod nihil gaudii amplius detur, cum tamen tunc primum incohat gaudium caeleste, quod infinite transcendit.