Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

  • -- Thich Nhat Hanh 一行禅师

文明已经被摧毁了很多次,这个文明也不例外。它可以被摧毁。我们可以把时间想象成几百万年,生活就会一点一点地恢复。宇宙对我们的作用非常迫切,但地质时间是不同的。

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The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

世界不会进入同心协力的权力集团。实际上,它正在进入权力扩散阶段,拥有比人类文明中任何时候都多的决策中心。这就要求你把自己置于比以往任何时候都多的权力中心。

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

这就是黑色给我的感觉。这感觉就像某种反复出现的梦,有很强的原型在运作。你知道,那个有罪的女孩被追逐,坠落,所有我们在梦里经常看到的事情。

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

仅仅携带一把尺子在口袋里就应该被禁止,至少在道德上是这样的。统治者是新文盲的象征。统治者是一种新疾病的症状,我们的文明正在瓦解。

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

这也是教会教训的一部分,就是世界是在某时被造,起于某时,因其邪恶而消灭。

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

我真的很幸运,我的唱片公司对我很有耐心,让我一个人静一静,给我时间让我把它记在心里。