把你的视线转向内心，
你会发现心中一千个未发现的地区，
到这些地方去旅行。
——梭罗《瓦尔登湖》

Avoid letting failure discourage you. Instead, let failures motivate you to succeed. Understand that innovation comes with the risk of failure. When you fail, recognize that you have learned something valuable for the next time.

Zen is unique because it is not about sitting down and engaging your mind in any form of one-pointed concentration, which almost everyone finds challenging and tiring, even unrewarding. Zen says just do whatever you are doing with mindfulness. Practising Zazen (sittingdown meditation) will help you be more aware while doing all the other activities from bathing to washing dishes, but mostly the focus is to just enjoy everything we do or have to do in our lives. For if I’m doing anything in my life out of choice, there’s no reason to complain and if I don’t have a choice then there’s no sense in complaining.


As you become more mindful, one of the incredible things to happen with meditation is that you slow down. Your mind slows down, but it becomes far more effective. You get lot more done and you become more thorough.

“诗人是一只夜莺，栖息在黑暗中，用美妙的声音唱歌，以安慰自己的寂寞；诗人的听众好象被一位看不见的音乐家的曲调所颠倒，觉得自己受了感动，心情和畅，却又不知何以如此或何故如此。” --雪萊

Most of the time, it’s not that other people are torturing us, but that we judge whether other people are right or wrong with our own values. It’s we who are torturing ourselves.

很多时候，并不是别人在折磨我们，而是我们用自己的价值观去评判对方的是非对错，是我们在折磨自己。
—— 铃木大拙《禅者的思索》

《給海倫十四行詩》
（法）龍薩

等你衰老了的時候，在冬天
你會挨了火坐著搖動紡機，
一邊哼我的歌兒，一邊嘆息，
說，「龍薩他歌唱過我的青年。」
歌聲送到了侍女們的耳邊，
任她們是多麼迷離著倦意，
聽到了我的名字，都會驚起，
誇道你有福，從此名在人間。
那時候，我在地上瞢然長臥
不醒，成了石榴蔭里的魂魄，
你呢，白頭的老婦坐在火旁，
想著我多情，你傲慢，真懊悔；
哎，愛我！不如趁了今天玫瑰
還開著，我們攜了手去尋芳。

——朱湘 譯

当你
常常持有
“我不需要任何东西"的自足心态时，
你的心境
将渐渐融入宁静和自由。
恰似
夜月之光
挥洒在清澈静谧的小溪上。

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

--Dead Poets Society

生命中幸福的每一天都是礼物
愿每一天心中都有星辰大海 眼中都是良宵美景


如此幸福的一天。
雾一早就散了，我在花园里干活。
蜂鸟停在忍冬花上。
这世上没有一样东西我想占有。
我知道没有一个人值得我羡慕。
任何我曾遭受的不幸，我都已忘记。
想到故我今我同为一人并不使我难为情。
在我身上没有痛苦。
直起腰来，我望见蓝色的大海和帆影。
——米沃什 《礼物》

Enlightenment is the human being’s emergence from his own self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to make use of one’s own understanding without direction from another. This immaturity is self-incurred when its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. "Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding!" is thus the motto of Enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

“如果在你全部的清醒时间，都能给自己的大脑找到有意义的事情去做，而不是放任自己在迷糊的状态下漫无目的地浏览几个小时网页，那么在一天结束时，你会觉得更加充实，第二天开始时更加轻松。
– 卡尔·纽波特《深度工作》

亲密关系是坦诚和真实。

如果有一个人，你能把自己的内心坦诚给TA，把真实的自己展示给TA，而TA的回应是接受你，给你安全空间让你做自己 —— 那就是亲密关系。

一个心地干净、思路清晰，没有多余情绪和妄念的人，是会带给人安全感的。因为他不伤人，也不自伤。不制造麻烦，也不麻烦别人。某种程度上来说，这是一种持戒。
——林语堂

既然无论做什么
都是消耗完这一生，
那就不如勇敢一点
去多做一些自己喜欢的事了。