The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

慈悲的整个理念是建立在对所有这些生命的相互依赖的敏锐意识之上的,这些生命都是彼此的一部分,并且都参与到彼此之中

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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

如果我能影响到这位善良的仙女,她应该主持所有孩子的洗礼仪式,我应该要求她给世界上每个孩子的礼物都是一种不可摧毁的奇迹感,这种感觉将会持续一生。

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.

我们每个人的成功,都是因为有人在那里为你指明出路。光不一定一定要在你的家里;对我来说,这就是老师和学校。

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

我们从科学上知道,宇宙中没有任何东西是作为一个孤立的或独立的实体存在的。

Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.

同情是分享我们的活力和建立一个更人道的世界的基础。

Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history.

开始书写新的篇章,因为如果你循规蹈矩,你将永远无法创造历史。

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

忘记如何挖土和照料土壤就是忘记我们自己。