Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

  • -- Swami Shivananda 瓦南达

欲望是贫困。欲望是心灵上最大的不洁。欲望是行动的原动力。心中的欲望才是真正的不洁。即使是欲望的火花也是非常邪恶的。

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

我们贫穷的原因是我们没有想象力。有很多人在积累他们认为是巨大的财富,但那只是钱……他们不知道如何享受它,因为他们没有想象力。

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

我听说过小说开始于中间,结束于结尾,以补丁的形式写出来,然后再把它们拼接在一起,但我从来没有想过要这么做。

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

毅力是一种积极的原则,只有在欲望的影响下才能继续发挥作用。

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

希望和喜悦是真正的财富;一个人要恐惧和悲伤,真正的贫穷。