At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  • -- Gary Hamel 哈默尔

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

人们需要一个神圣的故事。他们必须有一种更大的目标感,以某种形式存在,无论多么理智。他们将找到一种方法来保持祖先的灵魂活着。

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

我不是说男人没有这种感觉,我不是这个意思,但我发现当我的孩子出生时,我的第一个孩子,我的心都碎了。

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

在宇宙的尺度上,我们的生命是微不足道的,然而当我们出现在这个世界上的短暂时期,所有有意义的问题都产生了。

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

不再有小说或非小说;只有叙事。

The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.

心中的财富是偷不走的。