Make the present moment into your friend, not your enemy.”
和当下为友,而不是为敌。
“To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.”
你能回应宇宙的最好的方式就是用宁静来看待人事物,而不是用心智噪音来断别。
“Trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work…
你不可能在事物中找到自己是谁...
The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.”
小我的满足是如此短暂,所以你必须不断地追寻更多,买得更多,一直不停的消费。
“The longing for love that is in every child is the longing to be recognized, not on the level of form, but on the level of being.”
每个孩子都渴望被爱,其实是渴望被认可,不是在外相的层面,而是在本体的层面。
“When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.”
当你不再用字句和标签来遮盖这个世界时,奇迹般的感受就会重回你的生活。
“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.”
当你与内在的宁静失去了连系,你便与自己失去了的连系。
“I have little use for the past and rarely think about it.”
过去对我不重要,我也很少回溯过往。
“Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.”
所谓慈悲,就是体认到你与众生有着深沉的连结。
“The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am.”
小我通常把“拥有”等同于“存在”:我拥有,所以我存在。我拥有越多,“我”的存在就越多。
“The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.”
小我经由比较而生存。别人如何看待你会变成你看待自己的方式。
“Are you resisting you’re here and now, right now?”
你正在抗拒此时和此地吗?现在?
“Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”
当你停止在事物中寻找你自己时,那个对事物的执着自然而然会消失。
“Nothing exists outside this present moment.”
当下之外别无他物。