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篇一
成長的孤獨
We’re like the cream. When the cream rises to the top, it separates itself from the milk. Perhaps that is what the New Age Movement is really all about. We find ourselves lonely at the top. Yes, it is.
我們就像奶油。當奶油浮到頂部的時候，它會和牛奶分離。也許這種現象正像是新世紀運動的寫照。我們發現自己飛得越高，就會越感孤獨。是的，這就是現實。
It is no different with political enlightenment, spiritual enlightenment, or even becoming enlightened about relating to each other. The more mentally healthy you become, the more spiritual, the more balanced, the wealthier, the more global you become… the more alone you may feel.
不論是政治或精神修養的造詣有多深，或者甚至是與他人之間有一種默契的關係，就孤獨這一點而言，是沒有區別的。你越是擁有健康有理智，精神修養的造詣越深，生活越平衡，越富有，或你的名氣傳播得越廣，你也會感覺越孤獨。
Often, we find ourselves unable to find those other rare individuals who are choosing the same path as ours. The path of sloppy and lazy is full of other people to meet and talk to. The path of whiners is full. The path of being safe, generic, and boring is so crowded you almost cannot even move forward. Isn’t that why you left that path? You had a need to move forward, a need for some elbowroom, a need to spread your arms wide, a need to be seen as special, unique, different. The masses may admire you, but they are not going to be able to really relate to you. You will be alone much of the time.
經常，我們很難找到那些選擇我們和我們同路的人們。那條潮溼，慵懶的道路擠滿了可以相遇並聊天的人。那條滿是牢騷者的道路上也擁擠不堪。那條所謂安全，普通以及枯燥的道路是如此擁擠以至於你無法向前挪步。難道這不正是你離開那條道路的原因嗎?你需要向前挪步，需要活動的空間，需要展開你的雙臂，需要被認知為特別，有個性，與眾不同。萬千大眾仰慕你，但他們卻不可能真正地融入你。大部分的時間裡，你將是孤獨的。
Do not be afraid of the loneliness of enlightenment. Do not force others to agree with you. Simply give your heart and know that you are growing and that they are free to grow or not. It is the nature of the game. We are all free to choose our paths.
不要害怕因造詣深而產生的孤獨感。不必要勉強別人贊識你。做你自己，堅定著你自己的成長，別人是否願意成長就由他們自己去決定吧。這就是自然界的規則。我們都有選擇自己道路的自由。
篇二
在思考中成長
It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life. I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religiousfeeling. I don't think it was spoken of a great deal. It was more or less taken for granted that everybody held certain beliefs and needed certain reinforcements of their own strength and that that came through your belief in God and your knowledge of prayer.
我的信念是什麼，它在我的人生中起到了什麼作用------這些問題我覺得很難用言語解釋清楚。我認為自己很幸運，因為我出生在一個篤信宗教的家庭。家裡人對宗教談論得並不多。每個人心中或多或少都有某些信仰，都希望通過某種方式獲得力量，而這力量就來自信奉上帝並懂得如何祈禱。
But as I grew older I questioned a great many of the things that I knew very well my grandmother who had brought me up had taken for granted. And I think I might have been a quite difficult person to live with if it hadn't been for the fact that my husband once said it didn't do you any harm to learn those things, so why not let your children learn them? When they grow up they'll think things out for themselves.
我是在祖母身邊長大的。隨著年齡的增長，我對許多祖母視作理所當然的事產生了懷疑。我甚至拒絕讓孩子們接觸這些東西，似乎成了一個不近情理的人。直到有一次我丈夫勸我，這些東西你年少時也接觸過，對你也並無壞處。既然如此，何不讓孩子們也有了解它們的機會呢?他們長大以後會獨立思考這些問題的。
And that gave me a feeling that perhaps that's what we all must do-think out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it. And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop.
他的話使我感到或許我們每個人都應該這樣做------獨立思考自己應該信仰什麼以及如何在生活中堅守自己的的信仰。我認為人一生就應該盡全力做最好的自己------我想這就是我的信仰。
I don't know whether I believe in a future life. I believe that all that you go through here must have some value, therefore there must be some reason. And there must be some "going on." How exactly that happens I've never been able to decide. There is a future-that I'm sure of. But how, that I don't know. And I came to feel that it didn't really matter very much because whatever the future held you'd have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds you have to face it exactly the same way. And the important thing was that you never let down doing the best that you were able to do-it might be poor because you might not have very much within you to give, or to help other people with, or to live your life with. But as long as you did the very best that you were able to do, then that was what you were put here to do and that was what you were accomplishing by being here.
我不知道自己是否相信未來。我相信的是我們現在經歷的一切一定有價值，因此必有某些道理，也必然預示著有些事情"將要發生"。但這些事情如何發生，我卻不能決定。一定有未來------對此我深信不疑。但它會怎樣降臨。我不知道，然而著一點，我漸漸感到並不重要。因為無論未來如何，我們到時候總得面對，正如無論生活中發生了什麼，我們都必須面對一樣。真正重要的是要傾盡自己的全力。也許你能力有限、貢獻不多，無法給予他人更多的幫助，或者無法活得那麼精彩，但只要你能傾盡自己的全力，你就能完成來到人世間的使命，能體現人生的價值。
And so I have tried to follow that out-and not to worry about the future or what was going to happen. I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
這就是我一直奉行的生活原則------不擔心未來的事，也不為下一刻發生的事操心。我想我算是一個相信宿命的人吧。無論發生什麼，我們都得勇敢面對，關鍵是面對的時候我們要勇敢，要傾盡自己的全力。
篇三
挫折也是成長的一部分
1. The more we know about ourselves, the more power we have to behave better. We each have an infinite capacity for self-deception countless unconscious ways we protect ourselves from pain, uncertainty, and responsibility often at the expense of others and of ourselves.
1.越瞭解自己就越要謹慎而為。我們每個人在 自欺欺人 方面的潛能都是無限的，儘管大多數時候，我們這麼做都是無意為之，是為了保護自己免受痛苦、責任和不確定的傷害。然而，當我們在欺騙自己的同時，可能就要用他人的痛苦、責任和不確定來作為代價。
2. Notice the good. We each carry a predisposition to dwell on what's wrong in our lives. The antidote is to deliberately take time out each day to notice what's going right, and to feel grateful for what you've got.
2.關注好的方面。我們與生俱來的一種特質就是看到生活中不好的地方。而治癒這種頑症的良藥就是有意識地每天花一點時間去關注好的方面，對你所獲得的抱有感恩之心。
3. Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
3.世上沒有確定之事。確定的反面就是不確定，就是開放、好奇和願意接受悖論的思想，而不是選邊站。人生的終極挑戰就是接受真正的自己，同時永不停歇地去求知、去成長。
4. Never seek your value at the expense of someone else's. When we're feeling devalued, our reactive instinct is to do anything to restore what we've lost. Devaluing the person who made you feel bad will only prompt more of the same in return.
4.永遠不要通過貶低別人來找回自己的價值。當我們被人看扁的時候，本能反應就是要找回我們失去的東西、以牙還牙。然而，貶低看扁我們的人的這種做法只會招致更多的惡果，造成惡性迴圈。
5. Do the most important thing first in the morning and you'll never have an unproductive day. Most of us have the highest energy early in the day, and the fewest distractions. By focusing for a designated period of time, without interruption, on the highest value task for no more than 90 minutes, it's possible to get an extraordinary amount of work accomplished in a short time.
5.最重要的事放在早上做，你的一天都會充滿效率。大多數人早上的精力都是最充沛的，而且這個時候受到的干擾是最少的。撥出一段特定的時間，不要超過一個半小時，集中注意力，排除一切干擾，來完成價值最高的工作。這樣，在短時間內你就能擁有非凡的工作成績。
6. It's possible to be excellent at anything, but nothing valuable comes easy and discomfort is part of growth. Getting better at something depends far less on inborn talent than it does the willingness to practice the activity over and over, and to seek out regular feedback, the more precise the better.
6.你可能出色地做到任何事，但記住，成功來之不易，挫折也是成長的一部分。能不能做好一件事，天賦只佔很小的一部分原因，而願不願意一次次地去做，去尋求反饋才是關鍵因素，收到的反饋越多，準確度越高，效果越好。
7. The more behaviors you intentionally make automatic in your life, the more you'll get done. If you have to think about doing something each time you do it, you probably won't do it for very long. The trick is to get more things done using less energy and conscious self-control. How often do you forget to brush your teeth?
7.你在生活中越是能自動自發地做事，你的收穫就越多。如果在做一件事之前你總要想一想，那麼這件事你可能不會做得太長久。祕訣就是花更少的力氣，少去想為什麼要做，同時能完成更多的事情。想想看：你會經常想要不要去刷牙這個問題嗎?
8. Slow down. Speed is the enemy of nearly everything in life that really matters. It's addictive and it undermines quality, compassion, depth, creativity, appreciation and real relationship.
8.放慢速度。追求速度幾乎是生活中所有重要的事情的天敵。求快速會有損於做事的質量、同情心、深度、創造力、鑑賞力，還有真正重要的人際關係。
9. The feeling of having enough is magical. It rarely depends on how much you've got. More is rarely better. Too much of anything eventually becomes toxic.
9.知足常樂的感覺是奇妙的。幸福往往不在於你真的擁有多少。很多情況下，擁有太多不一定就是好事。擁有太多反而會成為帶來煩惱。
10. Do the right thing because it's the right thing to do, and don't expect anything in return.Your values are one of the only possessions you have that no one can take away from you. Doing the right thing may not always get you what you think you want in the moment, but it will almost always leave you feeling better about yourself in the long run.
10.做好事因為它應該做，而不要希求有什麼回報。人的價值是少數只屬於你的、別人搶不走的財富。做好事可能不會立刻有好報，不過從長遠來看，做好事總會讓你感覺更加良好。
11. Add more value in the world than you're using up. We spend down the earth's resources every day. Life's primary challenge is to put more back into the world than we take out.
11.付出要比索取多。我們每天都在消耗地球上的資源，而生活最基本的挑戰就是，向這個世界索取了多少，就要回報得比索取更多才行。
12. Savor every moment even the difficult ones. It all goes so fast.
12.享受每一刻 即使是困難的時候，也要細細品味。生命中的每一刻都是轉瞬即逝的。