We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

我们必须做出选择,使我们能够实现真正的自我的最深层的能力。

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective.

权力是行动的能力,完成某事的力量和潜力。它是做出选择和决定的重要能量。它还包括克服根深蒂固的习惯和培养更高、更有效的习惯的能力。

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

当我上大学的时候,我在考虑是尝试一下演艺圈的工作,还是成为一名教授。我只是想到了不进入演艺圈的风险,总是在想我是否还有机会。因为那才是我真正的心。

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

你的身体必须熟悉它的死亡——所有可能的形式和程度——作为一个不证自明的、迫在眉睫的、情感中立的步骤,朝着你已经发现值得你生活的目标迈进。

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

然而,它必须始终是一种对话,而不是强加于教会自己的信念和方法。提出,而不是强加。服务,而不是支配。

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

员工是最好的约会对象。你不必把它们捡起来,而且它们总是可以免税的。

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

如果它们不够真实,不足以让我感到惊讶,那么它们也不够真实,不足以让我动笔。

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

老年和其他一切一样。要想成功,你必须从年轻开始。

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.

选择一生中困难的事,好像它很容易,这就是信仰。