纪伯伦：The Farewell

云天

Freedom
自由
云天译

And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom."
一个演说者说，“给我们讲讲自由吧。”

And he answered:
他回答道：

At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
在城门前和你们的炉火旁，我看见你们膜拜自己的自由。
就如奴隶在暴君面前卑躬屈膝，并且奉承他，虽然他杀戮他们。  （谢老瓦提醒。）

Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
唉，在庙宇的丛林中，在城堡的阴影里，我看到过你们当中最自由的人把自由当做羁轭和手铐戴着。

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.
我的心在体内流血；因为，只有当追求自由的愿望就成为你们的束缚，当你们不再认为自由就是目标和成就时，你们才会自由。

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
当忧虑弥漫你的白昼，需求与痛苦笼罩你的夜晚，当这些事成为你们生活的羁绊，你们却赤身裸体毫无约束地超脱出来时，你们才真正获得自由。

And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
你们若不在智慧的清晨砸断你们系在正午的锁链，你们又怎能超越你们的白昼与黑夜？

In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes.
And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?
事实上，你们所称的自由是这些链子中最坚固的一环，虽然它在阳光下闪烁耀眼。
你们为获得自由而要抛弃的，不就是一些自我的碎片吗？

If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.
You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.
如果你们要废除的是不公正的法律，而法律是你们曾亲手写在自己的额上的。
焚烧你们的法律书，用海水洗濯法官的额头，对废除法律都无济于事，即使你们把海水都泼上去。

And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
如果你们要推翻君王，先要确定他在你们心中的王位已被摧毁。
因为，除非是自由中的暴政，骄傲中的耻辱， 否则，一个暴君又如何能统治自由和骄傲的人们？  

And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.
如果你们要抛掉的是烦恼，那么，是你们选择了烦恼，而不是别人给你们的。

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.
如果你们要驱逐的是恐惧，那么，恐惧居住在你们心中，而不是在你们惧怕的人手中。

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
其实，所有这些总在你们身体中若即若离地漂游，渴望的，恐惧的，厌恶的，珍视的，追求的，和躲避的。

These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.
它们在你们身体中游弋，就如光影成双成对，（步步相随）亦步亦趋 。（谢老瓦好词）

And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.
当影子遁去时，徘徊的光成为另一束光的影子。

And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
因此，当你们的自由挣脱它的脚镣时，它成为更大自由的脚镣。

老瓦

快手云出手就是快，不惜偷工减料的快哈；）第二句怎么就漏掉了？

At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
在城门前和你们的炉火旁，我看见你们膜拜自己的自由。


"in constant half embrace" ，翻译成若即若离，很贴切！

“就如光影成双成对，步步相随”， 似可改为“就如光影成双成对，亦步亦趋”？

云天

多谢老瓦！

还有一行也skip 了。 我说怎译得这么快呢。
下回欧戴上老花镜。


At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
在城门前和你们的炉火旁，我看见你们膜拜自己的自由。
就如奴隶在暴君面前卑躬屈膝，并且奉承他，虽然他杀戮他们。


“亦步亦趋”，好选！ 我想过，但又改了主意。

我稍后改过来。 再谢！

云天

85# 云天


觉得有些词用的过重（当然也是汉语本身的缺陷），比如： unbeautiful ＝ 丑陋，或者”不尽人意“？ unclean = 卑鄙， 或者”不净之人”？

a fetter and a fouling of the mind ＝ “胡思杂念”？

再 ...
老瓦 发表于 2009-8-26 11:39 PM

翻圣经中英对照版本，还真看到“不洁净的”这种讲法， 与你所说”不净之人”类似。 :)

再谢老瓦！

云天

Freedom
Gibran

And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom."

And he answered:

At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,

Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.

Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,

But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?

In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes.

And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?

If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.

You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.

And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their won pride?

And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.

And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.

And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.



自由
冰心译

于是一个辩士说，请给我们谈自由。

    他回答说：

    在城门边，在炉火光前，我曾看见你们俯伏敬拜自己的"自由"，

    甚至于像那些囚奴，在诛戮他们的暴君之前卑屈，颂赞。

    噫，在庙宇的林中，在城堡的影里，我曾看见你们中之最自由者，把自由像枷铐似地戴上。

    我心里忧伤，因为只有那求自由的愿望也成了羁饰，你们再不以自由为标竿、为成就的

时候，你们才是自由了。

    当你们的白日不是没有牵挂，你们的黑夜也不是没有愿望与忧愁的时候，你们才是自由了。

不如说是当那些事物包围住你的生命，而你却能赤裸地无牵挂地超腾的时候，你们才是自由了。



    但若不是在你们了解的晓光中，折断了缝结你们昼气的锁链，你们怎能超脱你们的白日和黑夜呢？

实话说，你们所谓的自由，就是最坚牢的锁链，虽然那链环闪烁在日光中炫耀了你们的眼目。



    自由岂不是你们自身的碎片？你们愿意将它抛弃换得自由么？

    假如那是你们所要废除的一条不公平的法律，那法律却是你们用自己的手写在自己的额上的。

    你们虽烧毁你们的律书，倾全海的水来冲洗你们法官的额，也不能把它抹掉。

    假如那是个你们所要废黜的暴君，先看他的建立在你心中的宝座是否毁坏。

    因为一个暴君怎能辖制自由和自尊的人呢？除非他们自己的自由是专制的，他们的自尊是可羞的。

    假如那是一种你们所要抛掷的牵挂，那牵挂是你自取的，不是别人勉强给你的。

假如那是一种你们所要消灭的恐怖，那恐怖的座位是在你的心中，而不在你所恐怖的人的手里。



    真的，一切在你里面运行的事物，愿望与恐怖，憎恶与爱怜，追求与退避，都是永恒地互抱着。

    这些事物在你里面运行，如同光明与黑影成对地胶粘着。

    当黑影消灭的时候，遗留的光明又变成另一种光明的黑影。

这样，当你们的自由脱去他的镣铐的时候，他本身又变成更大的自由的镣铐了。

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云天

Reason and Passion

理智与感情
云天译

And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion."
女祭司再度开口，说道：“给我们讲讲理智与感情吧。”

And he answered saying:
他回答道：

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
你们的灵魂时常是战场，理智与判断在那里同感情与欲望较量。

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
但愿我可以成为你们灵魂的调停人，将你们自身的纷争与对抗化做统一和谐的旋律。

But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
但我怎能做到呢？除非你们自己也做调停人，不仅如此，你们要热爱你们灵魂中的一切。

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
你们的理智与感情是你们航行在海上的灵魂的舵与帆。
假如帆或舵中的任何一个损坏了，你们只能随波逐流，或者在大海中停滞不前。

For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
理智独自支配，是一股控制的力量；而感情，不加留意，则会成为毁灭自己的烈焰。

Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
因此，让你们的灵魂超越理智，上升到感情的高度；使它歌唱；
让你们的灵魂用理智引导感情，使你们的感情能够每日复活，一如从灰烬中升起的凤凰。

I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house.
我希望你们斟酌你们的判断与欲望，就象对待家中的两位嘉宾。

Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.
你们当然不应当对两个客人有所偏颇；因为，对其中一人关心过分，反而会失去他们两人的爱与信念。

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."
在群山之间，当你坐在白杨树的凉荫下，享受远方田野与草甸的祥和宁静时----让你的心默默说，“上帝在理智中休憩。”

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."
当风暴降临，狂风摇撼森林，电闪雷鸣宣告天空的权威，--- 让你的心敬畏地说，“上帝在感情中穿行。”

And since you are a breath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
既然你是上帝领地上的一缕气息，上帝森林里的一片树叶，那么，你也当在理智中休憩，在感情中穿行。

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理性与热情
冰心译

    于是那女冠又说：请给我们讲理性与热情。
    他回答说：
    他们的心灵常常是战场。在战场上，你们的理性与判断和你们的热情与嗜欲开战。
    我恨不能在你们的心灵中做一个调停者，使我可以让你们心中的分子从竞争与衅隙变成合一与和鸣。
但除了你们自己也做个调停者，做个你们心中的各分子的爱者之外，我又能做什么呢？

    你们的理性与热情，是你们航行的灵魂的舵与帆。
    假如你们的帆或舵破坏了，你们只能泛荡、飘流，或在海中停住。
    因为理性独自治理，是一个禁锢的权力；热情，不小心的时候是一个自焚的火焰。
    因此，让你们的心灵把理性升到热情的最高点，让它歌唱；
    也让心灵用理性来引导你们的热情，让它在每日复活中生存，如同大鸾在它自己的灰烬上高翔。
    我愿你们把判断和嗜欲当作你们家中的两位佳客。
    你们自然不能敬礼一客过于另一客；因为过分关心于任一客，必要失去两客的友爱与忠诚。

    在万山中，当你坐在白杨的凉荫下，享受那远田与原野的宁静与和平——你应当让你的心在沉静中说：“上帝安息在理性中。”
    当飓暴卷来的时候，狂风振撼林木，雷电宣告穹苍的威严——你应当让你的心在敬畏中说：“上帝运行在热情里。”
只因你们是上帝大气中之一息，是上帝丛林中之一叶，你们也要同他一起安息在理性中，运行在热情里。

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Pain

痛苦
云天译

And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."
一个女人开口，说道，“给我们讲讲痛苦吧。”

And he said:
他说道：

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
你的痛苦打破束缚你理解的外壳。

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
即使果核必须砸开，核仁会站在太阳下，因此你必须知道痛苦。

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
把你的心存放在你生活中的奇迹中，你的痛苦不会比欢乐逊色；
你将接受你心灵的季节，就如你总是接受走过你田野的四季。

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
你将宁静地注视你整个哀伤的冬季。

Much of your pain is self-chosen.
你的痛苦多半是自寻的。

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
那是苦药，你内心的医生用它来医治你的病体。

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
因此，要信任医生，沉默宁静地喝下他的灵药：

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
因为，他的手虽然粗糙，却由上帝无形的柔手所牵引，
他带来的杯子，虽然烫到你的嘴唇，却由上帝这位瓷匠用神圣的泪珠粘在一起烧烤而成。

云天

Pain
Gibran


And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."

And he said:

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.



苦痛
冰心译

是一个妇人说，请给我们谈苦痛。

    他说：

    你的苦痛是你那包裹知识的皮壳的破碎。

    连果核也必须破碎，使果仁可以暴露在阳光中，所以你们也必须知道苦痛。

    倘若你能使你的心时常赞叹日常生活的神妙，你的苦痛的神妙必不减于你的欢乐；你要

承受你心天的季候，如同你常常承受从田野上度过的四时。

    你要静守，度过你心里凄凉的冬日。

    许多的苦痛是你自择的。

    那是你身中的医士，医治你病躯的苦药。

    所以你要信托这医生，静默安宁地吃他的药：

    因为他的手腕虽重而辣，却是有冥冥的温柔之手指导着。

    他带来的药杯，虽会焚灼你的嘴唇，那陶土却是陶工用他自己神圣的眼泪来润湿调搏而

成的。

fancao

又有新作了。顶顶

云天

多谢仙草版主提携。
欧这两天译了就来填空。 :)

云天

跳过两篇，匆匆译了这篇。
谨以此拙译献给花木同我的朋友们。 中秋快乐，诸事如意！
思念尽在不言中。。。。。


Friendship

友谊
云天译

And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
一个青年说，“给我们讲讲友谊吧。”

Your friend is your needs answered.
你的朋友是对你的需求的回应。

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
他是你的田野，你用爱心播种，用感激收获。

And he is your board and your fireside.
他是你的饮食与炉火。

For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
你饥饿时去找他，在他那里寻求安宁。

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay“.
你的朋友直抒胸臆时，你心里别怕说“不”，但你也不要保留“是”字。

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
他沉默时，你的心不要停止聆听他的心；
因为，无需言语，在友谊中，一切思想，一切愿望，一切期待都在默默的欢乐中诞生并分享。

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
当你离开你的朋友时，不要悲伤；
因为，他不在时，他最令你珍爱的优点愈加清晰，正如爬山人从平地仰望高山，山愈加清晰。

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
让友谊除了深化灵魂的需求外，不含其它目的。
因为，只追求揭示爱情本身奥秘的爱不是爱，那不过是撒网，只会捕获无益之物。

And let your best be for your friend.
请把你最好的奉献给你的朋友。

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
假若他必须知道你潮汐的低谷，让他也知道其高潮。
因为，朋友是什么呢？你只是要找他消磨时光吗？
寻找他，永远一起体验生命。

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
因为，他满足你的需求，而非你的空虚。

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
让友谊的甜美中回荡笑声，共享欢乐。

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
因为，在琐事的露珠里，心灵找到晨曦，因而焕然一新。





When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
----by Gibran

云天

请听一首歌。


“望着月亮的时候常常想起你。。。。”
想起我们曾在一起的日子，想起去年冬雨时节与你相见时，想起大华九九旁边的清粥小店， 还有你柔柔的微笑。。。。

别，可别听到我喊，你就上来。 怕累着你呢。只要你健康，你快乐，我就开心。 愿你天天快乐，一生圆满。

心娴

海上生明月，天涯共此时. 云烟中秋快乐！

云天

心妹翩然而来。还带着美诗美图。 多谢！

”但愿人长久，千里共婵娟“。
祝心妹中秋快乐！ 举杯相邀， 与心妹同醉。

请心妹听一首醉歌。

mist

祝雅天，雅娴中秋快乐！

云天

今夕何夕， 雅雾/心妹接踵而来。 多谢！  

祝雅雾中秋快乐，美满幸福！

两位美人登门，无以为谢。 赶着译了一篇《论美丽》，献给两位佳人。

“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. ”
Indeed， that's how I feel now.    I'm thrilled to see you two beauties here.

Wish you two the very best!

云天

Beauty

美丽
云天译

And a poet said, "Speak to us of Beauty."

一个诗人说，“给我们讲讲美丽吧。”

Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?

你该到哪里去寻求美丽呢？除非美丽本身就是你的道路同你的向导，否则你又如何找得到她呢？

And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech?

除非美丽编织你的言语，否则你又如何谈论她？

The aggrieved and the injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle.
Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us."

悲哀与受伤的人说，“美丽是善良与温柔，
她走在我们当中，象一个年轻的母亲，对自己的华丽半含娇羞。“

And the passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."

激情洋溢的人说，“不，美丽是强大和令人畏惧的东西。
就象狂风暴雨，她摇动我们脚下的大地，震撼我们头顶的天空。“

The tired and the weary say, "beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks in our spirit.
Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow."

劳累和疲倦的人说，“美丽是轻柔的低语。她在我们的灵魂中呢喃。
她的声音屈服于我们的沉默，好比一缕微弱的光线，在恐惧的阴影里颤栗。“

But the restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains,
And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions."

但好动的人说，“我们听见她在群山之间喊叫，
随之而来的，还有达达的蹄声，翅膀的振颤声，和狮子的吼叫声。“

At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."

夜晚，城市的守夜人说，“美丽将随东方的晨曦一同升起。”

And at noontide the toilers and the wayfarers say, "we have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."

正午时，辛苦的劳作者同奔波的路人说，“我们曾看见美丽从落日的窗口旁倚向大地。”

In winter say the snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."

冬天，困在雪地中的人说，“美丽将跨越山巅，与春天一起到来。”

And in the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

在夏天的炎热里，收割者说，“我们曾看到美丽同秋叶共舞，我们看到她发丝上的雪片。”

All these things have you said of beauty.

这些都是你们说到的美丽。

Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

然而，事实上，你们说的不是美丽，而是未获满足的需求，
美丽不是需求，而是狂喜。

It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

美丽既不是口渴的嘴唇，也不是伸出来的空手，
而是一颗燃烧的心，一个着魔的灵魂。

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

美丽既不是你看见的映像，也不是你听见的歌声，
而是你闭上眼睛后仍能看见的映像，捂上耳朵后仍能听见的歌声。

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

美丽既不是沟壑纵横的树皮里的汁液，也不是与爪子相连的翅膀，
而是一幢花园，永远盛开着花朵；是一群天使，永远展翅飞翔。

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

奥法利斯的人们啊，当生命揭去面纱展露圣洁的容颜那一刻,  生命即为美丽。
而你们就是生命，你们就是面纱。
美丽是永恒，凝视镜中的自己。
而你们就是永恒，你们就是镜子.

Thomas Kinkade:  The Garden

云天

月满西楼

纪伯伦是我最崇拜的诗人.
他的散文也很好,云天看过<虚荣的紫罗兰>吧,那篇我特别喜欢.

云天

欧瞧见你就笑，西楼。 又一美人光临。
那么把《美丽》也献给你。

<虚荣的紫罗兰>，也极喜欢。
很美的文，飘着淡淡的忧伤，一如紫罗兰的色彩。


我晚些搬过来。

云天

谢美丽西楼！

The Ambitious Violet
Kahlil Gibran


There was a beautiful and fragrant violet who lived placidly amongst her friends, and swayed happily amidst the other flowers in a solitary garden. One morning, as her crown was embellished with beads of dew, she lifted her head and looked about; she saw a tall and handsome rose standing proudly and reaching high into space, like a burning torch upon an emerald lamp.

The violet opened her blue lips and said, "What an unfortunate am I among these flowers, and how humble is the position I occupy in their presence! Nature has fashioned me to be short and poor.... I live very close to the earth and I cannot raise my head toward the blue sky, or turn my face to the sun, as the roses do."

And the rose heard her neighbor's words; she laughed and commented, "How strange is your talk! You are fortunate, and yet you cannot understand your fortune. Nature has bestowed upon you fragrance and beauty which she did not grant to any other... Cast aside your thoughts and be contended, and remember that he who humbles himself will be exalted, and he who exalts himself will be crushed."

The violet answered, "You are consoling me because you have that I craved.... You seek to embitter me with the meaning that you are great.... How painful is the preaching of the fortunate to the heart of the miserable! And how severe is the strong when he stands as advisor among the weak!"

And Nature heard the conversation of the violet and the rose; she approached and said, "What has happened to you, my daughter violet? You have been humble and sweet in all your deeds and words. Has greed entered your heart and numbed your senses?" In a pleading voice, the violet answered her, saying, "Oh great and merciful mother, full of love and sympathy, I beg you, with all my heart and soul, to grant my request and allow me to be a rose for one day."

And Nature responded, "you know not what you are seeking; you are unaware of the concealed disaster behind your blind ambition. If you were a rose you would be sorry, and repentance would avail you but naught." The violet insisted, "Change me into a tall rose, for I wish to lift my head high with pride; and regardless of my fate, it will be my own doing." Nature yielded, saying, "Oh ignorant and rebellious violet, I will grant your request. But if calamity befalls you, your complaint must be to yourself."

And Nature stretched forth her mysterious and magic finger and touched the roots of the violet, who immediately turned into a tall rose; rising above all other flowers in the garden.

At eventide the sky became thick with black clouds, and the raging elements disturbed the silence of existence with thunder, and commenced to attack the garden, sending forth a great rain and strong winds. The tempest tore the branches and uprooted the plants and broke the stems of the tall flowers, sparing only the little ones who grew close to the friendly earth. That solitary garden suffered greatly from the belligerent skies, and when the storm calmed and the sky cleared, all the flowers were laid waste and none of them had escaped the wrath of Nature except the clan of small violets, hiding by the wall of the garden.

Having lifted her head and viewed the tragedy of the flowers and trees, one of the violet maidens smiled happily and called to here companions, saying, "See what the tempest has done to the haughty flowers!" Another violet said, "We are small, and live close to the earth, but we are safe from the wrath of the skies." And a third one added, "Because we are poor in height the tempest is unable to subdue us."

At that moment the queen of violets saw by her side the converted violet, hurled to earth by the storm and distorted upon the wet grass like a limp soldier in a battle field. The queen of the violets lifted her head and called to her family, saying, "Look, my daughters, and meditate upon that which Greed has done to the violet who became a proud rose for one hour. Let the memory of this scene be a reminder of your good fortune."

And the dying rose moved and gathered the remnants of her strength, and quietly said, "You are contended and meek dullards; I have never feared the tempest. Yesterday I, too, was satisfied and contented with Life, but Contentment has acted as a barrier between my existence and the tempest of Life, confining me to a sickly and sluggish peace and tranquility of mind. I could have lived the same life you are living now by clinging with fear to the earth.... I could have waited for winter to shroud me with snow and deliver me to Death, who will surely claim all violets.... I am happy now because I have probed outside my little world into the mystery of the Universe.... something which you have not yet done. I could have overlooked Greed, whose nature is higher than mine, but as I hearkened to the silence of the night, I heard the heavenly world talking to this earthly world, saying, 'Ambition beyond existence is the essential purpose of our being.' At that moment my spirit revolted and my heart longed for a position higher than my limited existence. I realized that the abyss cannot hear the song of the stars, and at that moment I commenced fighting against my smallness and craving for that which did not belong to me, until my rebelliousness turned into a great power, and my longing into a creating will.... Nature, who is the great object of our deeper dreams, granted my request and changed me into a rose with her magic fingers."

The rose became silent for a moment, and in a weakening voice, mingled with pride and achievement, she said, "I have lived one hour as a proud rose; I have existed for a time like a queen; I have looked at the Universe from behind the eyes of the rose; I have heard the whisper of the firmament through the ears of the rose and touched the folds of Light's garment with rose petals. Is there any here who can claim such honor?" Having this spoken, she lowered her head, and with a choking voice he gasped, "I shall die now, for my souls has attained its goal. I have finally extended my knowledge to a world beyond the narrow cavern of my birth. This is the design of Life.... This is the secret of Existence." Then the rose quivered, slowly folded her petals, and breathed her last with a heavenly smile upon her lips... a smile of fulfillment of hope and purpose in Life... a smile of victory... a God's smile.

云天

《虚荣的紫罗兰》
纪伯伦

幽静的花园里，生长着一棵紫罗兰。她有美丽的小眼睛和娇嫩的花瓣。她生活在女伴们中间，满足于自己的娇小，在密密的草丛中愉快地摆来摆去。
　　
一天早晨，她抬起顶着用露珠缀成的王冠的头，环顾四周，她发现一株亭亭玉立的玫瑰，那么雍容而英挺，使人联想起绿宝石的烛台托着鲜红的小火舌。

紫罗兰张开自己天蓝色的小嘴，叹了一口气，说："在香喷喷的草丛里，我是多么不显眼啊，在别的花中间，我几乎不被人看见。造化把我造得这般渺小可怜。我紧贴着地面生长，无力地向蓝色的苍穹，无力把面庞转向太阳，像玫瑰花那样。"

玫瑰花听到她身旁的紫罗兰的这番话，笑得颤动了一下，接着说："你这枝花多么愚蠢呵！你简直不理解自己的幸福，造化把很少赋予别类花朵的那种美貌、那种芬芳和娇嫩给予了你。抛弃你那些错误的想法和空洞的幻想，满足于自己的命运吧，要知道，温顺会使他变得坚强，谁要求过多，谁就会失去一切。"

紫罗兰回答道："呵，玫瑰花，你来安慰我，因为在我只能幻想的那一切，你都有了。你是那样美好，所以你用聪明的词令粉饰我的渺小。但是对于不幸者说，那些幸福者的安慰意味着什么呢？向弱者说教的强者总是残酷的！"造化听到玫瑰与紫罗兰的对话，觉得奇怪，于是高声问："呵，女儿，你怎么了，我的紫罗兰？我知道你一向谦逊而有耐心，你温柔而又驯顺，你安贫而又高尚。难道你被空虚的愿望和无谓的骄傲制服了？"

紫罗兰用充满哀求的声调回答她："呵，你原是无上全能、悲悯万物的啊，我的母亲！我怀着满腔激情、满腔希望请求你，答应我的要求，把我变成玫瑰花吧，哪怕只一天也好！"

造化说："你不知道你请求的是什么。你不明白外表的华丽暗藏着不可预期的灾祸。当我把你的躯干抽长，改变了你的容貌，使你变成了玫瑰花，你会后悔的，可是，到那时，后悔也无济于事了。"

紫罗兰答道："呵，把我变作玫瑰花吧！变作一株高高的玫瑰花，骄傲地抬着头！日后不论发生什么事，都由我自己担承！"

于是，造化说："呵，愚蠢而不听话的紫罗兰，我满足你的愿望！但是，如果不幸和灾祸突然降落在你的头上，那是你自己的过错！" 造化伸开她那看不见的魔指，触了一下紫罗兰的根--转瞬间紫罗兰变成了盛开的玫瑰，伫立在众芳之上。

午后，天边突然乌云密布，卷起旋风，雷电交加，隆隆作响，狂风和暴雨所组成一支不计其数的大军突然向园林袭来；他们的袭击折断了树枝，扭弯了花茎，把傲慢的花朵连根拔起。花园里除了那些紧贴着地面生长或是隐藏在岩石缝里的花草之外，什么也不剩了。而那座幽静的花园遭到了比其他花园更多的灾难。

等到风停云散，花儿全死去了，--她们像灰尘一样，满园零落，唯有躲在篱边的紫罗兰，在这场风暴的袭击之后，安然无恙。

一株紫罗兰抬起头来，看着花草树木的遭遇，愉快地微笑了一下，招呼自己的女伴："瞧呵，暴风雨把那些自负为美的花朵变成了什么哟！" 另一株紫罗兰说："我们紧贴着地面生长。我们才躲过了狂风暴雨的愤怒。" 第三株喊道："我们是这般脆弱，但龙卷风并没有战胜我们！"

这时紫罗兰皇后向四周环顾了一下，突然看见昨天还是紫罗兰的那株玫瑰花。

暴风雨把她从土里拔起，狂风扫去了她的花瓣，把她抛在湿漉漉的青草上。她躺在地上，像一个被敌人的箭射中了的人一样。

紫罗兰皇后挺直了身子，展开自己的小叶片，招呼女伴们说："看呵，看呵，我的女儿们！看看这株紫罗兰，为了能炫耀自己的美貌，她想变成一株玫瑰，哪怕是一小时也可以。就让眼前这景象作为你们的教训吧。"

濒死的玫瑰叹了一口气，集中了最后的力量，用微弱的声音回答道："听我说吧，你们这些愚蠢而谦逊的花儿，听着吧，暴风雨和龙卷风都把你们吓坏了！昨天我也和你们一样，藏在绿油油的草丛里，满足于自己的命运。这种满足使我在生活的暴风雨里得到了庇护。我的整个存在的意义都包含在这种安全里，我从来不要求比这卑微的生存更多一点的宁静与享受。呵，我原是可以跟你们一样，紧贴着地面生长，等待冬季用雪把我盖上，然后偕同你们去接受那死亡与虚无的宁静。但是，只有当我不知道生活的奥妙，我才不能那样做，这种生活的奥妙，紫罗兰的族类是从来也不知道的。从前我可以抑制自己一切的愿望，不去想那些得天独厚的花儿。但是我倾听着夜的寂静，我听见更高的世界对我们世界说：‘生活的目的在于追求比生活更高更远的东西。'这时我的心灵就不禁反抗起自己来了。我的心殷切地盼望升到比自己更高的地方。终于，我反抗了自己，追求那些我不曾有过的东西，直到我的愤怒化成了力量，我的向往变成了创造的意志。到那时，我请求造化--你们要知道，造化，那不过是我们一种神秘的幻觉的反映，--我要求她把我变成玫瑰花。她这样作了。就像她常常用赏识和鼓励的手指变换自己的设计和素描一样！"

玫瑰花沉默了片刻，然后带着骄傲而优越的神情补充说："我做了一小时的玫瑰花，我就像皇后一样度过了这一小时。我用玫瑰花的眼睛观察过宇宙。我用玫瑰花的耳朵倾听过以太的私语。我用玫瑰花的叶片感受过光的变幻。难道你们中间找得到一位，蒙受过这样的荣光么？" 玫瑰低下头，已经喘不上气来，说："我就要死了。我要死了，但我内心里却有一种从来没有一株紫罗兰所体验过的感觉。我要死了，但是我知道，我所生存的那个有限的后面隐藏着的是什么。这就是生活的意义。这就是本质的所在，隐藏在无论是白天或夜晚的机缘之后的本质！"

玫瑰卷起自己的叶子，微微叹了一口气，死去了。她的脸上浮着超凡绝俗的微笑--那是理想实现的微笑，胜利的微笑，上帝的微笑。

云天

美丽西楼晚安！

心娴

心妹翩然而来。还带着美诗美图。 多谢！
  
  

”但愿人长久，千里共婵娟“。   
祝心妹中秋快乐！ 举杯相邀， 与心妹同醉。   
  


请心妹听一首醉歌。      
  
  


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云天 发表于 2009-10-3 10:47 PM

谢云烟。听着都醉了。听着都想跟着跳起来。 看到有花木在这条线，以为花木在这里呢。好久不见她来，请代问花木好。:)

也问雅雾好。

云天

谢心妹喜欢。那就跳吧。顺便上张舞照让欧饱饱眼福。

花木的电脑慢得一蹋糊涂。 前段出游。这几日又身体不适。
已传话。 花木也问你好！   她身体好些时会上来。

mist

啊，雅天还译了文给美人啊，美文给雅娴和西楼两位美女正好！

他有没有写过“给恐龙”啊？有的话，倒是可以把“给恐龙”送给俺，俺定收不误

谢谢雅天，等俺有时间了好好看看你的翻译，肯定翻译得很美。

云天

正好上来，瞧见雅雾。问声好！ ：））

当然是给三位美人的呢。   

欧自娱自乐，瞎译呢。 雅雾好文笔，若有兴致，不妨示范下。

云天

雅雾晚安！

云天

有兴致译的，请！ :)

Self-Knowledge
Gibran

And a man said, "Speak to us of Self-Knowledge."

And he answered, saying:

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.

You would know in words that which you have always know in thought.

You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.

And it is well you should.

The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;

And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;

And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.

For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."

Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."

For the soul walks upon all paths.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

mist

所以说啊，有恐龙的俺一定接着，给美人的俺就算了

雅天羞煞俺也！俺做示范？俺赶紧钻地逢里逃吧

这段时间太忙，以后不这么忙时，一定前来学习。

谢谢雅天的歌，是俺挺喜欢的一首。

正好上来，瞧见雅雾。问声好！ ：））

当然是给三位美人的呢。   

欧自娱自乐，瞎译呢。 雅雾好文笔，若有兴致，不妨示范下。 ...
云天 发表于 2009-10-6 01:55 AM

云天

132# mist

雅雾舞蹈高手， 此地无银的说。

过谦了。 若有砖，定请送给不才。

谢喜欢。 不客气。 你忙，不用回。 see you around.
秋安！

云天

每周一译。

抓不到差。只好匆匆涂两笔献拙。



Self-Knowledge
Gibran

自知
纪伯伦
云天译

And a man said, "Speak to us of Self-Knowledge."
一个男人说，“给我们讲讲自知吧。”

And he answered, saying:

他答道：

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.

寂静中，你的心清楚白昼与黑夜的奥秘。
然而，你的耳朵却渴望听到心中的知识之声。

You would know in words that which you have always know in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.

你想用言语了解你思想一直明白的事。
你想用手指触摸你梦中裸露的躯体。
你应该那么做。


The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

你灵魂中深藏的泉源必须涌出，一路呢喃，奔向大海；
那么，你无尽深处的宝藏，将在你眼前显现。
但是，不要用天平去衡量你未知的宝藏；
也不要用杆子或测深索探寻你知识的深度。
因为，人本身是无垠的大海，不可测量。


Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.

不要说，“我已发现真理，”而要说，“我已发现一个真理。”
不要说，“我已发现灵魂的道路。”而要说，“我与灵魂在路上擦肩而过。”
因为，灵魂在所有的路径上行走。


The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

灵魂不沿着一条线行走，也不象芦苇般生长。
灵魂舒展自己，如一朵莲花，迸放无数花瓣。



"Lotus" - By Secret Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U66L3t68D5A

云天

自　　知
冰心译

    于是一个男人说，请给我们讲自知。
    他回答说：
在宁静中，你的心知道了白日和黑夜的奥秘
但你的耳朵渴求听到你心的知识的声音。
    你愿在意念中所了解的，能从语言中知道。
你愿能用手指去抚触你的赤裸的梦魂。

    你要这样做是好的。
你的心灵隐秘的涌泉，必须升溢，吟唱着奔向大海；
你的无穷深处的宝藏，必须在你目前呈现。
但不要用秤来衡量你的未知的珍宝，
也不要用杖竿和响带去探测你的知识的浅深。
    因为自我乃是一片无边无际的海。
    不要说“我找到了真理”，只要说“我找到了一条真理”。
    不要说“我找到了灵魂的道路”，只要说“我遇见了灵魂在我的道路上行走。”
    因为灵魂在一切的道路上行走。
    灵魂不只在一条道路上行走，也不是芦草似地生长。
灵魂如同一朵千瓣的莲花，自己开放着。

云天

Teaching

教育
纪伯
云天译

Then said a teacher, "Speak to us of Teaching."
然后，一位老师说，“跟我们谈谈教育吧。”

And he said:
他答道：

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.
没有人能够向你们昭示什么， 除了在我们知识的拂晓里半睡半醒的冥思。

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
老师在庙宇的阴影中与他的门徒中行走，他所传授的并非是他的智慧，而是他的信念同爱意。

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
假若老师真正睿智，他不会命令你们迈进智慧的殿堂，而是引领你们跨入自己心灵的门槛。

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
天文学家也许会向你阐述他对宇宙的了解，却无法把他的理解给予你。

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.
音乐家也许会把世间盛行的旋律唱给你听，却无法给你捕捉旋律的耳朵，以及回应旋律的声音。

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
精通数字科学的人，对重量同测量如数家珍，可他却无法引导你们前往那里。
因为，一个人的视野无法为另一个人助威添翼。

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.
正如你们中的每个人都在神的知识里独自站立，你们各自也必须在神的知识以及神对大地的领悟里独处。

云天

今晚好运，找到冰心的译作.

Teaching
Gibran

Then said a teacher, "Speak to us of Teaching."

And he said:

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.


教授
冰心译

于是一位教师说，请给我们讲教授。

    他说：

    除了那已经半睡着，躺卧在你知识的晓光里的东西之外，没有人能向你启示什么。

    那在殿宇的荫影里，在弟子群中散步的教师，他不是在传授他的智慧，而是在传授他的

忠信与仁慈。

    假如他真是大智，他就不命令你进入他的智慧之堂，却要引导你到你自己心灵的门口。

    天文家能给你讲述他对于太空的了解，他却不能把他的了解给你。

    音乐家能给你唱出那充满太空的韵调，他却不能给你那聆受韵调的耳朵和应和韵调的声音。

    精通数学的人能说出度量衡的方位，他却不能引导你到那方位上去。

    因为一个人不能把他理想的翅翼借给别人。

正如上帝对于你们每个人的了解都是不相同的，所以你们对于上帝和大地的见解也应当是不相同的。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXuzLRVi6qk

云天

Talking

言论
纪伯伦
云天译

And then a scholar said, "Speak of Talking."
然后，一位学者说：“说说言论吧。”

And he answered, saying:
他回答道：

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
当你不能与自己的思想和平相处时，你开始讲话。
当你不能独守内心的孤寂时，你转而依赖口唇生存，声音于是成为一种娱乐和消遣。

And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words many indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
在你大部分的言谈中，思想被扼杀了一半。
因为，思想属于天空中的飞鸟，而在语言的樊笼里，许多遐想的确展开了羽翼，却无法翱翔。

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.
The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

你们当中有些人惧怕独处，因而寻求健谈者交往。
孤独的寂静向他们的眼睛显现他们裸露的自我，他们因而宁愿逃避。

And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
还有一些人，在无知或无意的谈论中，竟揭示出连他们自己也不明白的真理。

And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.
In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.
而且，有些人心中拥有真理，却不用言语表述。
在这些人的胸襟中，精神沉湎于节奏分明的宁静中。

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered
When the color is forgotten and the vessel is no more.

当在路旁或市场里遇见你的朋友时，让你的精神开启你的双唇，引导你的喉舌。
让你声音中的声音对着他耳朵的耳朵倾诉；
因为，他的灵魂将珍藏你心中的真理，正如色彩会被忘却，酒器也不复存在，但酒的味道将萦绕于心。

云天

谈　　话
冰心译

    于是一个学者说，请你讲讲谈话。
    他回答说：
    在你不安于你的思想的时候，你就说话。
    在你不能再在你心的孤寂中生活的时候，你就要在你的唇上生活，而声音是一种消遣，一种娱乐。
    在你许多的谈话里，思想半受残害。
    思想是天空中的鸟，在语言的笼里，也许会展翅，却不会飞翔。
    你们中间有许多人，因为怕静，就去找多话的人。
    在独居的寂静里，会在他们眼中呈现出他们赤裸的自己，他们就想逃避。
    也有些说话的人，并没有知识和考虑，却要启示一种他们自己所不明白的真理。
    也有些人的心里隐存着真理，他们却不用言语来诉说。
在这些人的胸怀中，心灵居住在有韵调的寂静里。

    当你在道旁或市场遇见你朋友的时候，让你的心灵，运用你的嘴唇，指引你的舌头。
    让你声音里的声音，对他耳朵的耳朵说话：
    因为他的灵魂要噙住你心中的真理。
如同酒光被忘却，酒杯也不存留，而酒味却永远被记念。

云天

Time

时间
纪伯伦
云天译

And an astronomer said, "Master, what of Time?"
一位天文学家说，“大师，时间是怎么回事呢？”

And he answered:
他答道：

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.
你想衡量无穷又不可测的时间。

You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
你想依照时辰与季节来调整你的行为，甚而引导你的灵魂之路。

Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
你想筑一条时间的小溪，坐在岸边，看它流淌。


Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
然而，你心中的永恒明了生命的无限，
并且知道，昨天不过是今天的回忆，而明天是今天的梦想。

And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
那在你身体里歌唱并沉思的，仍然与群星逸入宇宙的初始时刻并存。

Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
你们当中，有谁不感到他的爱力浩瀚无边呢？

And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not form love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
谁没有感受到那种爱呢？ 爱虽然无边无际，却围绕在他的四周，既不在爱的意念里朝三暮四，也不在爱的行为里见异思迁。

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
时间不正如爱一样吗？既不可分割，也无快慢可言。

But if in your  thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
但倘若在你的思想里必须以四季来衡量时间，那么就让每个季节蕴含其它的季节，
让今天以回忆拥抱过去，以渴望投身未来。

云天

时　　光
冰心译

    于是一个天文家说，夫子，时光怎样讲呢？
    他回答说：
    你要测量那不可量、不能量的时间。
    你要按照时辰与季候来调节你的举止，引导你的精神。
你要把时光当做一条溪水，您要坐在岸旁，看它流逝。

    但那在你里面无时间性的我，却觉悟到生命的无穷。
    也知道昨日只是今日的回忆，而明日只是今日的梦想。
    那在你里面歌唱着、默想着的，仍住在那第一刻在太空散布群星的圈子里。
    你们中间谁不感到他的爱的能力是无穷的呢？
    又有谁不感到那爱虽是无穷，却是在他本身的中心绕行，不是从这爱的思念移到那爱的思念，也不是从这爱的行为移到那爱的行为么？
而且时光岂不是也象爱，是不可分析，没有罅隙的么？

    但若是在你的意想里，你定要把时光分成季候，那就让每一季候围绕住其他的季候。
也让今日用回忆拥抱着过去，用希望拥抱着将来。

云天

Good and Evil

善与恶
纪伯伦
云天译


And one of the elders of the city said, "Speak to us of Good and Evil."
城里的一位长者说，“给我们讲讲善与恶吧。”

And he answered:
他答道：

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
我可以谈谈你们心中的善，但却不能谈恶。

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
因为， 恶为何物？ 它不正是善饱受自身饥渴的折磨而造成的吗？

Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters.
事实上，当饥饿不堪时，善甚至到黑暗的洞穴里寻找食物；而当口干舌燥时，它甚至去饮死水。

You are good when you are one with yourself.
当你与自己一致时，你是善良的。

Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
而当你与自己不协调时，你也不邪恶。

For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
因为，一个分裂的家并非贼窝；只不过是个分裂的家罢了。

And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
一只无舵的船在险恶的岛屿间漫无目的地漂游，但还不至于沉入水底。

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
当你尽力付出你自己时，你是善良的。

Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.
而当你为自己谋取利益时，你也并非邪恶。

For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast.
因为，当你竭力获益时，你不过是树根，依附大地的胸脯，吮吸她的乳汁。

Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, "Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance."
果实当然不能告诉树根，“学我吧，成熟，饱满，永远奉献你的富庶。”

For to the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root.
因为，对于果实，奉献是种需求；而对于树根，接受则是需求。

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech,
Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose.
当你谈吐完全清醒时，你是善良的，
而当你睡着时，你的舌头毫无意识地胡言癔语时，你也并非邪恶。

And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
即使结结巴巴的言辞也会强化软弱的舌头。

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
当你坚定果敢地迈向目标时，你是善良的。

Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
而当你跛足而行时，你也并非邪恶。

Even those who limp go not backward.
即使那些跛行的人，也没有倒着走。

But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
但是，强健而敏捷的你，可别在瘸子面前跛行，反倒以为那是好心。

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good,
You are only loitering and sluggard.
你在许多方面是善良的，而当你不善良时，你也并非邪恶，
你只是闲散惰懈而已。

Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.
真遗憾，牡鹿无法教会乌龟快走。

In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing is in all of you.
你渴望自身强大，这体现了你的善：你们所有人都有这样的愿望。

But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea, carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest.
但是，在你们某些人心中，渴望是一道膨湃的激流， 乘载着山坡的秘密和森林的歌声，向大海奔腾。

And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.
而在其它人心中，渴望只是一条平缓的溪流，在蜿蜒迂回中迷失了自己，踌躇徘徊，才抵达海边。

But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little, "Wherefore are you slow and halting?"
但是，渴望重重的人可不要去质问心无所求的人，“你因何步履缓慢，走走停停？”

For the truly good ask not the naked, "Where is your garment?" nor the houseless, "What has befallen your house?"
因为，真正善良的人不会问衣不蔽体的人，“你的衣裳在哪里？”
也不会这么问无家可归的人，“你的房子出了什么事？”

云天

善　　恶
冰心译

    于是一位城中的长老说，请给我们谈善恶。
    他回答说：
    我能谈你们的善性，却不能谈你们的恶性。
    因为，什么是“恶”，不只是“善”被他自身的饥渴所困苦么？
的确，在“善”饥饿的时候，他肯向黑洞中览食，渴的时候，他也肯喝死水。

    当你与自己合一的时候便是“善”。
    当你不与自己合一的时候，却也不是“恶”。
    因为一个隔断的院宇，不是贼窝，只不过是个隔断的院宇。
    一只船失了舵，许会在礁岛间无目的地飘荡而却不至于沉到海底。
    当你努力要牺牲自己的时候便是“善”。
    当你想法自利的时候，却也不是“恶”。
    因为当你设法自利的时候，你不过是土里的树根，在大地的胸怀中啜吸。
    果实自然不能对树根说：“你要像我，丰满成熟，永远贡献出你最丰满的一部分。”
    因为，在果实，贡献是必需的，正如吸收是树根所必需的一样。
    当你在言谈中完全清醒的时候，你是“善”的。
    当你在睡梦中，舌头无意识地摆动的时候，却也不是“恶”。
连那失错的言语，有时也能激动柔弱的舌头。

    当你勇敢地走向目标的时候，你是“善”的。
    你颠顿而行，却也不是“恶”。
    连那些跛者，也不倒行。
但你们这些勇健而迅速的人，要警醒，不要在跛者面前颠顿，还自以为仁慈。

    在无数的事上，你是“善”的；在你不善的时候，你也不是“恶”的。
    你只是流连，荒亡。
    可怜那糜鹿不能教给龟鳖快跑。
    在你冀求你的“大我”的时候，便隐存着你的善性：
    这种冀求是你们每人心中都有的。
    但是对于有的人，这种冀求是奔越归海的急湍，挟带着山野的神秘与林木的讴歌。
    在其他的人，是在转弯曲折中迷途的缓流的溪水，在归海的路上滞留。
    但是不要让那些冀求深的人，对冀求浅的人说：“你为什么这般迟钝？”
    因为那真善的人，不问赤裸的人：“你的衣服在那里？”也不问那无家的人：“你的房子
怎样了？”

云天

云天

Prayer

祷告
纪伯伦
云天译

Then a priestess said, "Speak to us of Prayer."
然后一个女祭司说，“给我们讲讲祷告吧。”

And he answered, saying:
他回答道：

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
你只在愁苦和需求时才祷告；但愿你在满心欢喜和日子富裕时也祷告。

For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?
因为，祷告不就是你自身向生活太空的扩展吗？

And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
倘若放飞你的黑暗会令你舒心，那么，倾吐你内心的拂晓，也会令你愉悦。

And if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing.
如果你的灵魂召唤你祷告时，你只是哭泣，那么，尽管你啜泣，她应当一再催促你，直到你展露笑颜。

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
当你祷告时，你升入空中，和那些在同一时辰祷告的人相遇，除非祷告，你不会遇见他们。

Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion.
因此， 让你们对无形神殿的造访，只为带来喜悦与甜蜜契合。

For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive.
因为， 如果你们迈入神殿，只为了祈求， 那么你们将一无所获。

And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:
如果你们进去，是为了使自己谦卑，那你们将不会被神加持：

Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.
即使你们是为了别人而进去祈求，神也听不见你们。

It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.
你们只需跨入无形的神殿，就足够了。

I cannot teach you how to pray in words.
我不能够教你们如何用言语祈祷。

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
神听不见你们的话， 除非他本人借你们的双唇说出那些话。

And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains.
我无法教给你们大海，森林，以及群山的祷告。

But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart,
但是， 你们既诞生于高山森林和大海，就能够在心里找到它们的祷告，

And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence,
如果你们在静夜里聆听， 你们将听见它们沉默的言语，

"Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.
“我们的神啊，你是我们长了羽翼的化身，你的愿望就是我们心里的愿望。

It is thy desire in us that desireth.
你的渴望就是我们心中的渴望。

It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
你在我们心中的冲动，把我们的暗夜， 它也属于你， 化为你的白昼。

We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
我们不能向你祈求什么， 因为， 早在我们的需求在心里出现之前，你就已经知道了：

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."
你就是我们的需求；当你把自己向我们付出更多时，你已付出了所有。“

云天

祈祷
冰心译

    于是一个女冠说，先知请给我们谈祈祷。

    他回答说：

你们总在悲痛或需要的时候祈祷，我愿你们也在完满的欢乐中和丰富的日子里祈祷。

    因为祈祷不就是你们的自我在活的以太中的开展么？

    假若向太空倾吐出你们心中的黑夜是个安慰，那么倾吐出你们心中的晓光也是个欢乐。

    假若在你的灵魂命令你祈祷的时候，你只会哭泣，她也要从你的哭泣中反复地鼓励你，直到你笑悦为止。

    在你祈祷的时候，你超凡高举，在空中你遇到了那些和你在同一时辰祈祷的人，那些除了祈祷时辰之外你不会遇到的人。

    那么，让你那冥冥的殿宇的朝拜，只算个欢乐和甜柔的聚会罢。

    因为假如你进入殿宇，除了请求之外，没有别的目的，你将不能接受。

    假如你进入殿宇，只为要卑屈自己，你也并不被提高。

    甚至于你进入殿宇，只为他人求福，你也不被嘉纳。

只要你进到了那冥冥的殿宇，这就够了。



    我不能教给你们怎样用言语祈祷。

    除了它通过你的嘴唇所说的它自己的言语之外，上帝不会垂听你的言语。

    而且我也不能传授给你那大海、丛林和群山的祈祷。

    但是你们生长在群山、丛林和大海之中的人，能在你们心中默会它们的祈祷。

    假如你在夜的肃默中倾听，你会听见它们在严静中说：

    “我们自己的‘高我’的上帝，您的意志就是我们的意志。

    您的愿望就是我们的愿望。

    您的神力将您赐给我们的黑夜转为白日。

    我们不能向您祈求什么，因为在我们动念之前，您已知道了我们的需要。

我给您的是我们的需要。在您把自己多赐予我们的时候，您把一切都赐予我们了。”


The Maiden's Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB6B_xpXMYw

云天

Pleasure

快乐
纪伯伦
云天译

Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, "Speak to us of Pleasure."

然后，一位一年进城一次的隐士，走上前来说道，“给我们谈谈快乐吧。”

And he answered, saying:

他答道：

Pleasure is a freedom song,
But it is not freedom.
It is the blossoming of your desires,
But it is not their fruit.

快乐是一支自由之歌，
可它不是自由。
它是你们的愿望绽放的花，
但却不是愿望结出的果实。

It is a depth calling unto a height,
But it is not the deep nor the high.
It is the caged taking wing,
But it is not space encompassed.

快乐是深谷对高山的呼唤，
可它既不是深谷也不是高山。
它是樊笼中展翅的鸟，
可它不是四周的天空。

Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom-song.

哎，的确， 快乐是一曲自由之歌。

And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.

我愿意你们全心去歌唱快乐；可我不愿你们在歌声里迷失你们的心。

Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judged and rebuked.

你们中的一些年轻人追求快乐，似乎那是一切， 他们因而受到批评和指责。

I would not judge nor rebuke them. I would have them seek.

我不会批评和指责他们。 我宁愿他们自己去寻找。

For they shall find pleasure, but not her alone:

因为， 他们会发现快乐， 而不仅仅是快乐：

Seven are her sisters, and the least of them is more beautiful than pleasure.

快乐有七姊妹， 她们中最小的比快乐还漂亮。

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

你们难道没听说过，一个人挖树根却找到了宝？

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness.

你们当中的一些长者，回想酒醉时犯下的过错，在悔恨中追忆快乐。

But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement.

但悔恨只是对心灵的蒙蔽， 却不是惩罚。

They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

回首快乐时，他们应当心存感恩， 一如回忆夏天的收获。

Yet if it comforts them to regret, let them be comforted.

但倘若悔恨带给他们安慰， 那就让他们得安慰吧。

And there are among you those who are neither young to seek nor old to remember;
And in their fear of seeking and remembering they shun all pleasures, lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it.

你们当中有些人， 既不是有追求的年轻人， 也不是怀旧的长者；
因为惧怕追求与回忆，他们躲避一切快乐，免得轻视或冒犯灵魂。

But even in their foregoing is their pleasure.

但即使如前所述， 他们仍然感到快乐。

And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering hands.

因而， 虽然他们以颤抖的双手挖掘树根，他们仍然找到了宝。

But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit?

但请告诉我，谁又能冒犯灵魂？

Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly the stars?

夜莺能冒犯夜的静谧吗？或者， 萤火虫可以冒犯星辰吗？

And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind?

你们的火苗或烟尘会给风添加负荷吗？

Think you the spirit is a still pool which you can trouble with a staff?

你们以为灵魂是能够承受棍子搅腾的一池静水吗？

Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.

通常，压抑自己的快乐不过是把欲望埋藏在心灵深处。

Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?

谁又知道，今天看似被疏忽的，不会在明天守候呢？

Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.

就连你们的身体也知道自身的天性与合理的需求，因而不会受骗。

And your body is the harp of your soul,
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

你们的身体是你们灵魂的竖琴，
是奏放甜美的旋律还是困惑的声音， 取决于你们。

And now you ask in your heart, "How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?"

现在， 你们在心中问，“我们该如何识别快乐中的利弊呢？”

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

走入你们的田野和花园，你们将了解，采集花蜜是蜜蜂的快乐，
但为蜜蜂产蜜也是花朵的快乐。
因为， 对于蜜蜂， 花朵是生命的源泉，
而对于花朵， 蜜蜂是爱的使者，
对蜜蜂与花朵二者而言， 快乐的施与受是一种需求，更带来无比的喜悦。
奥法利斯的人们啊， 象花朵与蜜蜂般，在你们的快乐中沉醉吧。


george winston: joy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IAxauUP93w

云天

快乐
冰心译


    于是有个每年进城一次的隐士，走上前来说：先知请给我们谈谈快乐。

    他回答说：快乐是一阕自由的歌，却不是自由。

    是你的愿望开出的花朵，却不是结下的果实。

    是从深处到高处的招呼，却不是深，也不是高。

    是关闭在笼中的翅翼，却不是被围绕住的太空。

    噫，实话说，快乐只是一阕自由的歌。

    我愿意你们全心全意地歌唱，我却不愿你们在歌唱中迷恋。

    你们中间有些年轻的人，寻求快乐，似乎这便是世上的一切。他们已被裁判、被谴责了。

    我不要裁判、谴责他们，我要他们去寻求。

因为他们必会找到快乐，但不止找到她一个人；

快乐有七个姊妹，她们中最小的也比她还要柔美。

    你们没听见过有人因为要挖掘树根却发现了宝藏么？

    你们中间有些老人，想起快乐时总带些懊悔，如同想起醉中所犯的过失。

    然而，懊悔只是心灵的蒙蔽，而不是心灵的惩罚。

    你们想起快乐时应当带着感谢，如同秋收对于夏季的感谢。但是假如懊悔能予他们以安慰，就让他们得到安慰罢。



你们中间有的不是寻求的青年人，也不是追忆的老年人；

在他们的畏惧寻求与追忆之中，他们远离一切的快乐，他们深恐疏远了或触犯了心灵。

    然而，他们的放弃就是快乐了。

    这样，他们虽用震颤的手挖掘树根，他们也找到宝藏了。

    告诉我，谁能触犯心灵呢？

    夜莺能触犯静默么，萤火能触犯星辰么？

    你们的火焰和烟气能使风感到负载么？

你们认为心灵是一池止水，你能用竿子去搅拨它么？



    常常在你拒绝快乐的时候，你只是把欲望收藏在你心身的隐处。

    谁知道在今日似乎避免了的事情，到明日不会再浮现呢？

    连你的身体都知道他的遗传和正当的需要而不肯被欺骗。你的身体是你灵魂的琴，

    无论他发出甜柔的音乐或嘈杂的声响，那都是你的。

    现在你们在心中自问：“我们如何辨别快乐中的善与不善呢？”

    到你的田野和花园里去，你就知道在花中采蜜是蜜蜂的快乐；但是，将蜜汁送给蜜蜂也是花的快乐。

    因为对于蜜蜂，花是它生命的泉源，对于花，蜜蜂是它恋爱的使者，对于蜂和花，两下里，给予与接受的快乐是一种需要与狂喜的快乐。

        阿法利斯的民众呵，在快乐中你们应当像花朵与蜜蜂。

云天

Religion

宗教
纪伯伦
云天译

And an old priest said, "Speak to us of Religion."
一位年长的祭司说，“给我们讲讲宗教吧。”

And he said:
他说：

Have I spoken this day of aught else?
我今天说了别的什么吗？

Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,
And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?
所有的行为与反思，
就连双手劈石或织布时，那既非行为亦非反思， 在灵魂中跳跃的奇妙与惊讶，
难道不都是宗教吗？

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
谁能够把信仰与行动，或者信念与职业，分隔开来？

Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?"
谁又能够把时间铺展在面前， 说， “这部分时间归神， 这部分归我自己；这部分属于我的灵魂， 而另一部分属于我的身体？”

All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.
你所有的时间都是羽翼，在你自我的空间从此到彼展翅拍击。

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
将道德当做至美的华服穿戴在身的人， 还不如赤身裸体。

The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
风和太阳不会在他的肌肤上划出洞来。

And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
以伦理规范行为的人，把他歌唱的小鸟囚禁在樊笼里。

The freest song comes not through bars and wires.
最自由的歌声不是发自栅栏与铁丝。

And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.
有人把敬拜当做可开关的窗子， 却还未造访他的灵魂之屋，而那些窗子从一个拂晓到下一个拂晓，一直敞开着。

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
你每天的生活就是你的庙宇同宗教。

Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
不论何时进去， 你都要带上自己的一切。

Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.
带上耕犁，熔炉，棒槌和琵琶，
还有你因需求或娱乐而制做的物品。

For in revery you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
因为， 在梦里， 你既不会超越你的成就， 也不会比你的失败更惨。

And take with you all men:
你要带上所有人一起去：

For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.
因为，在崇拜中， 你无法飞越他们的期望， 也不会比他们的失望更卑下。


And if you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles.
Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
如果你能认识神，不要做解迷者。
环顾四周， 你将看见神在同你的孩子们玩耍。

And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.
仰望太空；你将看见神在云中行走，在闪电中伸展双臂， 在暴雨中降临。

You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
你将看见神在花丛中微笑， 继而在树林里上升挥手。


Song without Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdcroY0HrU

云天

宗教
冰心译

    于是一个老道人说，先知请给我们谈宗教。

    他说：

    这一天中我曾谈过别的么？

    宗教岂不是一切的功德，一切的反省。

    以及那不是功德，也不是反省，只是在凿石或织布时灵魂中永远涌溢的一种叹异，一阵惊讶么？

    谁能把他的信心和行为分开，把他的信仰和事业分开呢？

    谁能把时间展现在面前，说“这时间是为上帝的，那时间是为我自己的；这时间是为我灵魂的，那时间是为我肉体的”呢？

    你的一切光阴都是那在太空中鼓动的翅翼，从自我飞到自我。

    那穿上道德只如同穿上他的最美的衣服的人，还不如赤裸着，太阳和风不会把他的皮肤裂成洞孔。

    把他的举止范定在伦理之内，是把善鸣之鸟囚在笼里。

    最自由的歌声，不是从竹木弦线上发出的。

    那以礼拜为窗户的人，开启而又关上，他还没有探访到他心灵之宫，那里的窗户是天天开启的。

    你的日常生活，就是你的殿宇，你的宗教。

    何时你进去，把你的一切都带了去。

    带着犁耙和铁炉，木槌和琵琶，这些你为着需要或怡情而制造的物件。

    因为在梦幻中，你不能超升到比你的成就还高，也不至于坠落到比你的失败还低。

    你也要把一切的人都带着：

因为在钦慕上，你不能飞跃得比他们的希望还高，也不能卑屈得比他们的失望还低。



    假如你要认识上帝，就不要做一个解谜的人。

    不如举目四望，你将看见他同你的孩子们游戏。

    也观望太空；你将看见他在云中行走，在电中伸臂，在雨中降临。

你将看见他在花中微笑，在树中举手挥动着。