The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  • -- Walter Elliot 沃尔特·艾略特

沙漠有它的沉默的神圣,人群有它的谈话的神圣。

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I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

我以圣洁为本,以真理为教训,在许多事上有忠心。我并不是不重视我们这个时代的事情,而是我认为,在上帝的大事和公共事务上,没有人能做任何事情来达到目的,除非他们的条件合适。

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

例如,上帝就像一个没有胡须,戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西,一种与火有关的东西,而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

我妈妈有一个很好的方法让我参与到关于我所做的选择的对话中,倾听,保持客观和开放的心态,尊重这些选择,只要它们不会让我处于危险之中。

You are not responding in the way i imagined you would respond when i acted out this conversation in my head. Stop it.

当我在脑海中把这段对话表演出来的时候,你的反应并不像我想象的那样。阻止它。

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

他们密谋在夜里抛弃我们,偷走我们的几匹马……我们雇了一个间谍。

The real meaning of the scriptures can only be known in the silence of the mind.

圣经的真正意义只有在内心的静默中才能知道。

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

这沙漠的信条似乎无法用语言来表达,实际上也无法用思想来表达。

Silence. I hate silence. Silence means thinking and thinking means judgement.

沉默。我讨厌沉默。沉默意味着思考,思考意味着判断。