God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

  • -- Amiri Baraka 阿米里·巴拉卡

上帝已经被取代了,就像他在整个西方所做的那样,被尊重和空调所取代。

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When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

当你意识到寂静时,立刻就会有一种内在的警觉状态。你是现在。你们已经走出了人类数千年的集体条件作用。

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

在这个世界上没有真正伟大的方法。我们都被条件所困。

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

现在我已经六十多岁了,我开始追求体面了。