这正是新纪元的“心灵控制物质”(Mind Over Matter)观念。为什么心灵可以控制物质?原来不是乐观积极的态度可以给人心灵力量这样简单。小心看,原来还有一个特别的技术。
萧律柏有一位前辈,叫皮尔(Norman Vincent Peale或译作罗文彪),他从这人学到“积极思想”,进而发展他的“可能思想”。14 萧的名著《可能!》也是罗文彪为他写序的。已故的皮尔曾是纽约“大理石大学教会”的牧师,该教会有成员五千;他亦在电台主持“生活的艺术”多年;他的《路标杂志》和他的讲章一样,甚受欢迎。
注释:
1. Robert H. Schuller, Success is Never Ending Failure is Never Final (Nashville, TN:Thomas NelsonPublishers, 1988), p. 69.
2. 萧律柏,《可能!》(香港:迎欣出版社,1999),页45。
3. Donald G. Smith, How to Cure Yourself of Positive Thinking (Miami, FL: E. A. Seemann Publishing,Inc., 1977), book jacket.
4. 萧律柏,《可能!》,页58-59。
5. Sharon Jayson, “Power of a Super Attitude,”USATODAY, 10/12/2004 (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-10-12-mind-body_x.htm,accessed Feb2006).
6. 萧律柏,《可能!》,页168。
7. Robert H. Schuller, If It's Going To Be,It's Up To Me (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco,1997), p. 9.
8. Robert H. Schuller, Tough Minded Faith forTendered Hearted People (Nashville,TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983), 45.
9. Robert A. Schuller, ed., Be AnExtraordinary Person In An Ordinary World (Old Tappan, NJ:Fleming H. Revell Co., 1985), p. 126.
10. 萧律柏,《可能!》,页109。
11. 同上,页63。
12. Schuller, Tough Minded Faith forTender Hearted People, 65.
13. 萧律柏,《可能!》,页53-58。
14. Robert Schuller, Power Thoughts:Achieve Your True Potential Through Power Thinking (NewYork: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993), p. 17-23.
15. Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1992),p. 23-25.
16. Ibid., p. 30, 60-61, 124-25.
17. Norman Vincent Peal, Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life (New York,NY:Fawcett Columbine Book, 1996), p. 186-87.
18. Cary Odom, ed., The SacredSword:Teachings of the Psychic Channel Betty Bethards (Novato,CA:The Inner Light Foundation, 1972), p. 120-24.
19. Ibid., p. 128, 132-34.
20. Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (New York: Bantam Books, 1982),P. 78.
21. Ibid., chapter 6, 9, 14, 15& 16.
22. Peace of Mind Through Possibility Thinking, 1977 pp. 131-32 (quoted in: “Another Possible Gospel of Robert Schuller's”http://www.letusreason.org/Poptea1.htm, accessedFeb, 2006).
23. Roobert H. Schuller, SelfEsteem: The New Reformation (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1982), p. 14.
24. Ibid., p. 67.
25. Ibid., p. 15.
26. Ibid., p. 14.
27. “Another Possible Gospel ofRobert Schuler’s.”
28. Norman Vincent Peale, Sin, Sexand Self-Control (Garden City, NY: Doubleday &Company,Inc., 1965), p. 12.
29. Schuller, Self-Esteem, p. 20.
30. Ibid., p. 98.
31. Ibid., p. 151.
32. Christian News, May 12, 1997, 1 (quoted in: “Norman Vincent Peale isa Man Who Made Up HisMind,”http://www.letusreason.org/Poptea2.htm , accessed Feb, 2006).
33. 萧律柏,《可能!》,页198-200。