The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

  • -- Sri Ramana Maharshi 拉玛那·马哈希

从不想要的思想中解脱出来的程度和专注于一个思想的程度是衡量精神进步的标准。

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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

最终,自然是无情的:它没有理由匆忙,迟早会夺走属于它的东西。无意识地、顽固地服从自己的法则,它不懂艺术,就像它不懂自由,就像它不懂善良一样。

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

自由的基本意义是摆脱枷锁,摆脱监禁,摆脱他人的奴役。剩下的就是这个意义的延伸,或者隐喻。