The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

爱的开始是让我们所爱的人成为完美的自己,而不是扭曲他们以符合我们自己的形象。否则,我们只爱自己在他们身上的反映。

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

可以说,每一种痛苦的一部分都是痛苦的影子或反映:你不仅要受苦,而且必须不断地思考你受苦的事实。我不仅在无尽的悲伤中度过每一天,而且在每一天都想着在悲伤中度过每一天。

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

获得智慧有三种方法。第一种是反射,反射是最高的。第二个是限制,这是最简单的。第三是经验,这是最痛苦的。

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

找出你是谁,做那个人。那就是你的灵魂被放在这个地球上的目的。找到真理,活出真理,其他一切都会到来。

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

原罪是关于人的一件事,它使人能够设想自己的完美,却不能实现它。

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

我的妻子开始教我如何找回梦,一点一点地,似乎起作用了。

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

我真的很喜欢互联网。他们说聊天室是互联网的拖车公园,但我觉得它很神奇。

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

群众实际上是自己的领导者,辩证地创造自己的发展过程。

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

这是一个寻找合适音乐的过程,然后计划一套适合这种音乐风格的服装。

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

在这个世界上,你不可以成为一个怪人,你必须适应它。

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

也许,我一开始就应该成为一名爵士歌手。