The process of prayer becomes much easier when, rather than having to believe that God will always say "yes" to every request, one understands intuitively that the request itself is not necessary.

当你不再认为神永远会“答应”任何一个请求，而是直觉地了解到请求本身根本没有必要时，祈祷的过程就变得容易得多了。

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Having survived there for centuries, they believe their wealth of traditional knowledge is vital to the task.

在那里生活了几个世纪后，他们相信自己丰富的传统知识对完成这项任务至关重要。

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Other parapsychologists believe the field is on the brink of collapse, having tried to produce definitive scientific proof and failed.

其他前卫的心理学家则认为，该学科曾试图提出明确的科学论证，但却失败了，因此该学科正处于瓦解的边缘。

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Most of us find that rather difficult thing to believe that the person could be constantly changing in this way without having any way at all to tell.

大多数人很难相信,人可以不断地,变化，而且是以这种,无法揣测的方式变化。

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My point here was only to say we shouldn't be so quick to think that we have to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain our having free will.

我的观点不过就是说我们不应该这么草率地,认为我们不得不相信,灵魂的存在,从而解释我们有自由意志

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