第一部分 在生命的磁場中

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

生命可貴之處在于做你自己。

What you have to do, you do with play.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.

Being alive is the meaning.

生命中該做的事，要以游戲的心情來完成。

生命本身不具意義，是你賦予它意義。

生命的意義依據你所下的定義而定。

活著本身就是意義。

The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree.

The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess.

We are not going to change it.

Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

戰士之道在于“肯定”生命：“肯定”它的一切。

愉悅地參與世間的苦難。

我們無法矯治這個苦難的世界，但我們能選擇快樂地活著。

當我們談論如何解決世界的問題時，我們是在緣木求魚。

世界是完美的。它是一團亂。它本來就是一團亂。

我們不是要去改變它。

我們的責任是去厘清自己的生活。

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.

The Hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.

If we are hanging onto the form now, we're not going to have the form next.

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Destruction before creation.

我們必須愿意放棄原先規劃好的生活，以便擁有在我們面前等待著的生活。

在新的皮膚長出來之前，舊有的皮膚，必須先蛻去。

如果我們固定于舊的事物，便被困住了，一旦執著于任何形相，我們便陷入墮落腐化的危險中。

生命枯竭了便是地獄。

囤積者，是我們內在那想去保有、執著的心態，必須要加以鏟除。

若攀住現有的形相，我們便不可能擁有下一個形相。

不打破蛋便不可能煎出蛋卷來。

毀滅先于創造。

Out of perfection nothing can be made.

Every process involves breaking something up.

The earth must be broken to bring forth life.

If the seed does not die, there is no plant.

Bread results from the death of wheat.

Life lives on lives.

Our own life lives on the acts of other people.

If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.

完美之中，一無所成。

所有的過程，都會造成破壞。

大地必先被破壞才能孕育新生命。

如果種子沒有死去，就不會有植物。

麥子的犧牲換來了面包。

生命依賴生命活存。

我們自己的生命是建立在他人的行為上的。

如果你認為生命值得珍惜，你便能接受它。

生活真正的目的在于生命的體驗，苦樂盡在其中。

我們和世界相配，世界也與我們相配。

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life.

We are not there until we can say "yea" to it all.

To take a righteous attitude toward anything is to denigrate it.

Awe is what moves us forward.

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.

Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.Having a sense of humor saves you.

發掘我們內在深層力量的機會，會在生命最具挑戰性的時刻到來。

對生命的痛苦及殘酷采取否定的態度，便是否定生命。

在我們能肯定生命之前，我們都不是真正活著。

凡事都以應然的態度面對，就是玷污了它。

敬畏是使我們向前邁進的原動力。

當你循著自己的道路，走過人生時，鳥屎偶然地落在你身上。不要浪費時間拂去它。

以幽默的視角看待你的處境，將會為你提供精神上的空間。幽默感能夠拯救你。

Eternity is a dimension of here and now．

The divine lives within you.

Live from your own center.

Your real duty is to go away from the community to find your bliss.

The society is the enemy when it imposes its structures on the individual.

On the dragon there are many scales.Everyone of them says "Thou Shalt".

Kill the dragon "Thou Shalt".

When one has killed that dragon, one has become The Child.

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss.

You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

永恒是當下的一個層面。

神性活在你的內心。

依你內在的圓心而活。

你真正的責任是遠離社群，以尋找內心真實的喜悅。

如果社會將其規范強行加諸個人身上，社會便是個人的敵人。

龍的身上有許多鱗片。每個鱗片上都寫著“你應該”。

殺死那代表“你應該”的龍。

當你殺死龍時，你就成為反璞歸真的“孩童”。

打破窠臼即是遵循你內心真實的喜悅，拋掉昔日的環境，開始你的英雄之旅，遵循你內心真實的喜悅。

如同蛇蛻去它的皮一般你也要拋掉昨日。

Follow your bliss．The heroic life is living the individual adventure．

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

To refuse the call means stagnation.

What you don't experience positively you will experience negatively.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path.

You are not on your own path.

If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.

遵循你內心真實的喜悅。英雄式的生活就是“個人”冒險的生活。

遵循冒險的召喚不會是風平浪靜的。

如果你知道結果會是什么，就沒有什么好興奮的了。

拒絕心靈的召喚就如死水般停滯。

凡是不能正面體驗到的事物，你將負面地體驗到它。

你進入森林中最黑暗的一點，那里沒有道路。

凡是有道路之處都是別人的道路。

你不是走在自己的道路上。

若遵循別人的道路，你便無法認清自己的潛能。

The goal of the hero trip down to the jewel point is to find those levels in the psyche that open， open， open，and finally open to the mystery of your Self being Buddha consciousness or the Christ．

That’s the journey.

It is all about finding that still point in your mind where commitment drops away.

英雄巔峰之旅的目的在于，發掘心靈的不同層次讓它開放，開放，再開放，直到揭開你自性的奧秘為止。不論那是佛性，還是基督。

這就是英雄之旅。

這一切的關鍵在于找出你心中的寧靜所在。在那里，世俗的羈絆煙消云散。

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life．

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

You find the jewel, and it draws you off.

In loving the spiritual, you cannot despise the earthly.

The purpose of the journey is compassion.

When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

The goal is to bring the jewel back to the world, to join the two things together.

只有走入深淵之中，我們才能重新發現生命的寶藏。

你跌倒的地方，正是你的寶藏所在。

你恐懼進入的洞穴反而是你所尋找事物的來源。洞穴中如此令人害怕的可憎事物，反而成為你生命的中心。

你找到寶藏，它卻把你拖垮。

在喜愛靈性生活的同時，你不能輕視世俗的事物。

人生旅程的目的在于慈悲。

當你超越了各式各樣的對立，你便達到慈悲的境界。

我們的目標在于將靈性的寶藏帶回這個世界，將兩者連接起來。

The separateness apparent in the world is secondary.

Beyond that world of opposites is an unseen, but experienced, unity and identity in us all.

Today, the planet is the only proper "in group."

You must return with the bliss and integrate it.

The return is seeing the radiance everywhere.

Sri Ramakrishna said:“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.”

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

出現在這個世界上的明顯區隔只是次要的。

在那充滿對立的世界之外，有一種存在于每個人內在看不到，但感受得到的和諧感與認同感。

今日，地球本身乃是人類唯一適合的“集體象征”。

你必須以無限的喜悅回到這個世界，并將它融入你的喜悅中。

回到這個世界乃是感受無所不在的光芒。

印度哲人羅摩克里希納說：“不要尋求智慧的啟發，除非你像頭上著了火的人急著找池塘一樣。”

如果你要的是整體，神明會將它給你，但你必須準備好才行。

The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation:

“As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm.

Jump.

It is not as wide as you think.”

你的目標是要像神一般的平靜，但卻以全速前進的能量去生活，就像酒神狄俄尼索斯能騎在豹子身上，卻不會被撕成碎片一樣。

一位年輕的美國原住民在他的成人禮時得到一則小小的建議：

“在人生的道路上，你會看到一個巨大的坑洞。

跳過它。

它沒有你想象的那么寬。”