我曾七次鄙视自己的灵魂

我曾七次鄙视自己的灵魂

纪伯伦

• 第一次，当它本可进取时，却故作谦卑；
• 第二次，当它在空虚时，用爱欲来填充；
• 第三次，在困难和容易之间，它选择了容易；
• 第四次，它犯了错，却借由别人也会犯错误来宽慰自己；
• 第五次，因软弱而忍耐，并把这种忍耐归于坚强而聊以慰藉；
• 第六次，当它鄙夷一张丑恶的嘴脸时，却不知那正是自己面具中的一副；
• 第七次，唱起颂歌，还以美德自诩。

Seven times have despised my soul

Kahlil Gibran

• The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height.
• The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.
• The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.
• The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong.
• The fifth time when she forbore for weekness, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
• And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.

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