It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

只有在深深的孤独中,我才能找到真正爱我的兄弟们的温柔。我越孤独,就越爱他们……孤独和沉默教会我爱我的兄弟,因为他们是谁,而不是他们说什么。

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

在这个世界上,跟随世俗的意见生活是很容易的;在孤独中,我们很容易活在自己的世界里;但伟大的人是那些在人群中保持绝对甜蜜的孤独的独立性的人。

Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.

慈悲不是感情用事,而是伸张正义和行善。慈悲不是一种道德戒律,而是最充分的人类和神圣能量的流动和溢出。

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

世俗的面孔从来没有在葬礼上显得那么世俗。它们具有刺耳的不协调的效果,就像一个粗哑的声音打破了夜晚的肃穆寂静。

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

培养孤独,安静和几个真诚的朋友,而不是乌合之众的欢乐,噪音和成千上万点头之交。

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

当重要的事情发生时,沉默是一种谎言。

Why does God endow us with compassion?

为什么神赋予我们怜悯?