玛丽莲・弗格森 | 在真实自我中超越文化标签与生命桎梏

注：英文引文，机翻未校。

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玛丽莲·弗格森 | 在真实自我中超越文化标签与生命桎梏

关于改变与自我成长

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
没有人能说服另一个人改变。我们每个人都守护着一扇只能从内部打开的改变之门。我们不能打开另一扇门，无论是通过雄辩滔滔还是情真意切。

It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear… It’s like being between trapezes.
我们害怕的并非改变本身或沉溺于旧习，而是恐惧两者之间的过渡期……如同悬在两个秋千之间的空荡时刻。

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
你的过去不代表你的潜力。在任何时刻，你都可以选择解放未来。

关于意识与思维模式

If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have always gotten.
若我们固守旧有信念，便会重复旧有行为；若重复旧有行为，终将得到一成不变的结果。

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool… to see patterns, relationships, context.
建立思维关联是我们最重要的学习工具……去发现规律、关系与背景。

The mind aware of itself is a pilot… vastly freer than a passenger mind.
有自我觉察的心智是领航者……远比被动接受的心智自由得多。

关于恐惧与突破

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
恐惧是一个问题：你在害怕什么，为何害怕？若勇于探索，恐惧便是自我认知的宝库。

The other side of every fear is a freedom.
每一种恐惧的另一面都是自由。

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side.
冒险必带来独特回报：突破的兴奋，抵达新境的畅然。

关于转变与系统

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.
转变是一场没有终点的旅程。

The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp.
偶然的转变与系统性的转变之别，犹如闪电与灯火——前者危险无常，后者安全可控。

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.
事物分崩离析，是为了在更高层次的秩序中重新聚合。

关于文化与社会

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.
我们最大的失败，是未能洞察事物的规律。

War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity.
在一个认知到人类彼此关联的自主社会中，战争是不可想象的。

Cultural transformation… is sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades.
文化转型……由零星小事引发，被酝酿数十年的新思想点燃。

关于生命与存在

Health and disease… are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony.
健康与疾病……是内心和谐或失衡的外在显现。

Love is a context, not a behavior.
爱是一种情境，而非具体的行为。

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.
对大多数人而言，精神追求始于对生命意义的探寻。

关于思维与认知

The East contemplated the forest; the West counted the trees… the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.
东方思索森林，西方细数树木……而认知到树木与森林一体的心智，是一种新的思维。

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions.
真正的自然认知进步很少是渐进的，所有重大突破皆源于突然的直觉。

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.
我们以认知塑造生活。若相信宇宙与自身是机械的，便会机械地活着。