But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

但我要告诉你隐士们意识到什么。如果你走到一个很远很远的森林里,变得非常安静,你就会明白,你和所有的事情都有联系。

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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

为了感受到爱、被尊重和保持联系,我们人类有说谎的倾向。关于我们是谁,我们想要什么,我们需要什么,我们做过什么或将要做什么,我们都在撒谎。也许“谎言”这个词太强烈了。让我说,我们所做的是隐瞒真相。

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

远方的朋友有时比身边的朋友更亲密。这山岂不是比住在山上的人,更使人敬畏,看得更清楚吗?

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

这里有一种基本的张力。有人说,我想把这片森林砍伐掉,把它砍成锯材,因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

当购物仍然与街道相连时,它也是街道的强化和连接。现在它已经完全独立了——包含、控制、调查。

Light spilled in from the half-shut window and filtered through your sleeping eyelashes, Beyond them, shadows like tall trees on forest floors were painted on your eyelids.

光线从半掩着的窗户里射进来,透过你熟睡的睫毛,透过睫毛,你的眼睑上画着树影,就像森林地面上的参天大树。

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

雕刻家或画家经常谈论或写他的作品是错误的。这释放了他工作所需要的紧张情绪。

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

眼睛的健康似乎需要视野。只要我们看得够远,我们就永远不会累。

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

我知道我将被要求很多,但我决心接受它作为一个伟大和辉煌的任务。

Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

道别是不可能的,除非你没有意识到你在说。

I'm very monogamous.

我非常一夫一妻制。