沙与沫 2
SAND AND FOAMSAND AND FOAM(second part)
A strange form of self-indulgence! There are times when I would be wronged and cheated, that I may laugh at the expense of those who think I do not know I am being wronged and cheated.
What shall I say of him who is the pursuer playing the part of the pursued?
Let him who wipes his soiled hands with your garment take your garment. He may need it again; surely you would not.
It is a pity that money-changers cannot be good gardeners.
Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues. I would have the faults; they are like mine own.
How often have I attributed to myself crimes I have never committed, so that the other person may feel comfortable in my presence.
Even the masks of life are masks of deeper mystery.
You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.
Tell me now, who among us is guilty and who is unguilty?
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
Only an idiot and a genius break man-made laws; and they are the nearest to the heart of God.
It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.
I have no enemies, O God, but if I am to have an enemy
Let his strength be equal to mine,
That truth alone may be the victor.
You will be quite friendly with your enemy when you both die.
Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defence.
Long ago there lived a Man who was crucified for being too loving and too lovable.
And strange to relate I met him thrice yesterday.
The first time He was asking a policeman not to take a prostitute to prison; the second time He was drinking wine with an outcast; and the third time He was having a fist-fight with a promoter inside a church.
If all they say of good and evil were true, then my life is but one long crime.
Pity is but half justice.
The only one who has been unjust to me is the one to whose brother I have been unjust.
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison."
And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful."
Oftentimes I have hated in self-defence; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
How stupid is he who would patch the hatred in his eyes with the smile of his lips.
Only those beneath me can envy or hate me.
I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one.
Only those above me can praise or belittle me.
I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
Your saying to me, "I do not understand you," is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve. How mean am I when life gives me gold and I give you silver, and yet I deem myself generous.
When you reach the heart of life you will find yourself not higher than the felon, and not lower than the prophet.
Strange that you should pity the slow-footed and not the slow-minded,
And the blind-eyed rather than the blind-hearted.
It is wiser for the lame not to break his crutches upon the head of his enemy.
How blind is he who gives you out of his pocket that he may take out of your heart.
Life is a procession. The slow of foot finds it too swift and he steps out;
And the swift of foot finds it too slow and he too steps out.
If there is such a thing as sin some of us commit it backward following our forefathers' footsteps;
And some of us commit it forward by overruling our children.
The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigour than we do our rights.
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
Should we all reveal our virtues we would also laugh for the same cause.
An individual is above man-made laws until he commits a crime against man-made conventions; After that he is neither above anyone nor lower than anyone.
Government is an agreement between you and myself. You and myself are often wrong.
Crime is either another name of need or an aspect of a disease.
Is there a greater fault than being conscious of the other person's faults?
If the other person laughs at you, you can pity him; but if you laugh at him you may never forgive yourself.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
In truth the other person is your most sensitive self given another body.
How heedless you are when you would have men fly with your wings and you cannot even give them a feather.
Once a man sat at my board and ate my bread and drank my wine and went away laughing at me.
Then he came again for bread and wine, and I spurned him;
And the angels laughed at me.
Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?
It is the honour of the murdered that he is not the murderer.
The tribune of humanity is in its silent heart, never its talkative mind.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold;
And I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
They spread before us their riches of gold and silver, of ivory and ebony, and we spread before them our hearts and our spirits.;
And yet they deem themselves the hosts and us the guests.
I would not be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfil them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
We are all climbing toward the summit of our hearts' desire. Should the other climber steal your sack and your purse and wax fat on the one and heavy on the other, you should pity him;
The climbing will be harder for his flesh, and the burden will make his way longer.
And should you in your leanness see his flesh puffing upward, help him a step; it will add to your swiftness.
You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
I would not listen to a conqueror preaching to the conquered.
The truly free man is he who bears the load of the bond slave patiently.
A thousand years ago my neighbour said to me, "I hate life, for it is naught but a thing of pain."
And yesterday I passed by a cemetery and saw life dancing upon his grave.
Strife in nature is but disorder longing for order.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches;
Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Once I spoke of the sea to a brook, and the brook thought me but an imaginative exaggerator;
And once I spoke of a brook to the sea, and the sea thought me but a depreciative defamer.
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.
The deep and the high go to the depth or to the height in a straight line; only the spacious can move in circles.
If it were not not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.
A scientist without imagination is a butcher with dull knives and out-worn scales.
But what would you, since we are not all vegetarians?
When you sing the hungry hears you with his stomach.
Death is not nearer to the aged than to the new-born; neither is life.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully; otherwise keep silent, for there is a man in our neighbourhood who is dying.
Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels.
A forgotten reality may die and leave in its will seven thousand actualities and facts to be spent in its funeral and the building of a tomb.
In truth we talk only to ourselves, but sometimes we talk loud enough that others may hear us.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
If the Milky Way were not within me how should I have seen it or known it?
Unless I am a physician among physicians they would not believe that I am an astronomer.
Perhaps the sea's definition of a shell is the pearl.
Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
A root is a flower that disdains fame.
There is neither religion nor science beyond beauty.
Every great man I have known had something small in his make-up; and it was that small something which prevented inactivity or madness or suicide.
The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
I would not believe that a man is mediocre simply because he kills the criminals and the prophets.
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.
Worms will turn; but is it not strange that even elephants will yield?
A disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
I am the flame and I am the dry bush, and one part of me consumes the other part.
We are all seeking the summit of the holy mountain; but shall not our road be shorter if we consider the past a chart and not a guide?
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-full to seek other than itself.
Had I filled myself with all that you know what room should I have for all that you do not know?
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
A bigot is a stone-leaf orator.
The silence of the envious is too noisy.
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces,
Then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.
A fact is a truth unsexed.
You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, "Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worth while for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man."
It is the mind in us that yields to the laws made by us, but never the spirit in us.
A traveller am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.
A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."
I said to Life, "I would hear Death speak."
And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, "You hear him now."
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Birth and death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
My friend, you and I shall remain strangers unto life,
And unto one another, and each unto himself,
Until the day when you shall speak and I shall listen
Deeming your voice my own voice;
And when I shall stand before you
Thinking myself standing before a mirror.
They say to me, "Should you know yourself you would know all men."
And I say, "Only when I seek all men shall I know myself."
Man is two men; one is awake in darkness, the other is asleep in light.
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
There lies a green field between the scholar and the poet; should the scholar cross it he becomes a wise man; should the poet cross it, he becomes a prophet.
Yestereve I saw philosophers in the market-place carrying their heads in baskets, and crying aloud, "Wisdom! Wisdom for sale!"
Poor philosophers! They must needs sell their heads to feed their hearts. Said a philosopher to a street sweeper, "I pity you. Yours is a hard and dirty task."
And the street sweeper said, "Thank you, sir. But tell me what is your task?"
And the philosopher answered saying, "I study man's mind, his deeds and his desires."
Then the street sweeper went on with his sweeping and said with a smile, "I pity you too."
He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.
No man can draw the line between necessities and luxuries. Only the angels can do that, and the angels are wise and wistful.
Perhaps the angels are our better thought in space.
He is the true prince who finds his throne in the heart of the dervish.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men.
All those who have lived in the past live with us now. Surely none of us would be an ungracious host.
He who longs the most lives the longest.
They say to me, "A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush."
But I say, "A bird and a feather in the bush is worth more than ten birds in the hand."
Your seeking after that feather is life with winged feet; nay, it is life itself.
There are only two elements here, beauty and truth; beauty in the hearts of lovers, and truth in the arms of the tillers of the soil.
Great beauty captures me, but a beauty still greater frees me even from itself.
Beauty shines brighter in the heart of him who longs for it than in the eyes of him who sees it.
I admire him who reveals his mind to me; I honour him who unveils his dreams. But why am I shy, and even a little ashamed before him who serves me?
The gifted were once proud in serving princes.
Now they claim honour in serving paupers.
The angels know that too many practical men eat their bread with the sweat of the dreamer's brow.
Wit is often a mask. If you could tear it you would find either a genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
The understanding attributes to me understanding and the dull, dullness. I think they are both right.
Only those with secrets in their hearts could divine the secrets in our hearts.
He who would share your pleasure but not your pain shall lose the key to one of the seven gates of Paradise.
沙与沫（第二部分）
一个人是在人造的法律之上，直到他犯了抵触人造的惯例的罪；
在此以后，他就不在任何人之上，也不在任何人之下。
政府是你和我之间的协定。你和我常常是错误的。
罪恶是需要的别名，或是疾病的一种。
还有比意识到别人的过失还大的过失吗？
如果别人嘲笑你，你可以怜悯他；但是如果你嘲笑他，你决不可自恕。
如果别人伤害你，你可以忘掉它；但是如果你伤害了他，你须永远记住。
实际上别人就是最敏感的你，附托在另一个躯壳上。
你要人们用你的翅翼飞翔而却连一根羽毛也拿不出的时候，你是多么轻率呵。
从前有人坐在我的桌上，吃我的饭，喝我的酒，走时还嘲笑我。
以后他再来要吃要喝，我不理他；
天使就嘲笑我。
憎恨是一件死东西，你们有谁愿意做一座坟墓？
被杀者的光荣就是他不是凶手。
人道的保护者是在它沉默的心怀中，从不在它多言的心思里。
他们认为我疯了，因为我不肯拿我的光阴去换金钱；
我认为他们是疯了，因为他们以为我的光阴是可以估价的。
他们把最昂贵的金子、银子、象牙和黑檀排列在我们的面前，我们把心胸和气魄排列在他们面前；
而他们却自称为主人，把我们当作客人。
我宁可做人类中有梦想和有完成梦想的愿望的、最渺小的人，而不愿做一个最伟大的、无梦想、无愿望的人。
最可怜的人是把他的梦想变成金银的人。
我们都在攀登自己心愿的高峰。如果另一个登山者偷了你的粮袋和钱包，而把粮袋装满了，钱包也加重了，你应当可怜他；
这攀登将为他的肉体增加困难，这负担将加长他的路程。
如果在你消瘦的情况下，看到他的肉体膨胀着往上爬，帮他一步；这样做会增加你的速度。
你不能超过你的了解去判断一个人，而你的了解是多么浅薄呵。
我决不去听一个征服者对被征服的人的说教。
真正自由的人是忍耐地背起奴隶的负担的人。
千年以前，我的邻人对我说："我恨生命，因为它只是一件痛苦的东西。"
昨天我走过一座坟园，我看见生命在他的坟上跳舞。
自然界的竞争不过是混乱渴望着秩序。
静独是吹落我们枯枝的一阵无声的风暴；
但是它把我们活生生的根芽，更深地送进活生生的大地的活生生的心里。
我曾对一条小溪谈到大海，小溪认为我只是一个幻想的夸张者；
我也曾对大海谈到小溪，大海认为我只是一个低估的诽谤者。
把蚂蚁的忙碌捧得高于蚱蜢的歌唱的眼光，是多么狭仄呵！
这个世界里的最高德行，在另一个世界也许是最低的。
深和高在直线上走到深度和高度；只有广阔能在圆周里运行。
如果不是因为我们有了重量和长度的观念，我们站在萤火光前也会同在太阳面前一样的敬畏。
一个没有想象力的科学家，好像一个拿着钝刀和旧秤的屠夫。
但既然我们不全是素食者，那么你该怎么办呢？
当你歌唱的时候，饥饿的人就用他的肚子来听。
死亡和老人的距离并不比和婴儿的距离更近；生命也是如此。
假如你必须直率地说的话，就直率得漂亮一些；要不就沉默下来，因为我们邻近有一个人快死了。
人间的葬礼也可能是天上的婚筵。
一个被忘却的真实可能死去，而在它的遗嘱里留下七千条的实情实事，作为料理丧事和建造坟墓之用。
实际上我们只对自己说话，不过有时我们说得大声一点，使得别人也能听见。
显而易见的东西是：在被人简单地表现出来之前，从不被人看到的。
假如银河不在我的意识里，我怎能看到它或了解它呢？
除非我是医生群中的一个医生，他们不会相信我是一个天文学家的。
也许大海给贝壳下的定义是珍珠。
也许时间给煤炭下的定义是钻石。
荣名是热情站在阳光中的影子。
花根是鄙弃荣名的花朵。
在美之外没有宗教，也没有科学。
我所认得的大人物的性格中都有些渺小的东西；就是这些渺小的东西，阻止了懒惰、疯狂或者自杀。
真正伟大的人是不压制人也不受人压制的人。
我决不因为那个人杀了罪人和先知，就相信他是中庸的。
容忍是和高傲狂害着相思的一种病症。
虫子是会弯曲的；但是连大象也会屈服，不是很奇怪吗？
一场争论可能是两个心思之间的捷径。
我是烈火，我也是枯枝，一部分的我消耗了另一部分的我。
我们都在寻找圣山的顶峰；假如我们把过去当作一张图表而不作为一个向导的话，我们路程不是可以缩短吗？
当智慧骄傲到不肯哭泣，庄严到不肯欢笑，自满到不肯看人的时候，就不成为智慧了。
如果我把你所知道的一切，把自己填满的话，我还能有余地来容纳你所不知道的一切吗？
我从多话的人学到了静默，从偏狭的人学到了宽容，从残忍的人学到了仁爱，但奇怪的是我对于这些老师并不感激。
执拗的人是一个极聋的演说家。
妒忌的沉默是太吵闹了。
当你达到你应该了解的终点的时候，你就处在你应该感觉的起点。
夸张是发了脾气的真理。
假如你只能看到光所显示的，只能听到声所宣告的，
那么实际上你没有看，也没有听。
一件事实是一条没有性别的真理。
你不能同时又笑又冷酷。
离我心最近的是一个没有国土的国王和一个不会求乞的穷人。
一个羞赧的失败比一个骄傲的成功还要高贵。
在任何一块土地上挖掘你都会找到珍宝，不过你应该以农民的信心去挖掘。
一个被二十个骑士和二十条猎狗追逐着的狐狸说："他们当然会打死我。但他们准是很可怜很笨拙的。假如二十只狐狸骑着二十头驴子带着二十只狼去追打一个人的话，那真是不值得的。"
是我们的心思屈服于我们自制的法律之下，我们的精神是从不屈服的。
我是一个旅行者，也是一个航海者，我每天在我的灵魂中发现一个新的王国。
一个女人抗议说："当然那是一场正义的战争。我的儿子在这场战争中牺牲了。"
我对生命说："我要听死亡说话。"
生命把她的声音提高一点说："现在你听到他说话了。"
当你解答了生命的一切奥秘，你就渴望死亡，因为它不过是生命的另一个奥秘。
生与死是勇敢的两种最高贵的表现。
我的朋友，你和我对于生命将永远是个陌生者，我们彼此也是陌生者，对自己也是陌生者，
直到你要说、我要听的那一天，
把你的声音作为我的声音；
当我站在你的面前
觉得我是站在镜前的时候。
他们对我说："你能自知你就能了解所有的人。"
我说："只有我寻求所有的人我才能自知。"
一个人有两个我，一个在黑暗里醒着，一个在光明中睡着。
隐士是遗弃了一部分的世界，使他可以无惊无扰地享受着整个世界。
在学者和诗人之间伸展着一片绿野？如果学者穿走过去，他就成个圣贤；如果诗人穿走过来，他就成个先知。
昨天我看见哲学家们把他们的头颅装在篮子里，在市场上高声叫卖："智慧，卖智慧咯！"
可怜的哲学家！他们必须出卖他们的头来喂养他们的心。
一个哲学家对一个清道夫说："我可怜你，你的工作又苦又脏。"
清道夫说："谢谢你，先生。请告诉我，你做什么工作？"
哲学家回答说："我研究人的心思、行为和愿望。"
清道夫一面扫街一面微笑说："我也可怜你。"
听真理的人并不弱于讲真理的人。
没有人能在需要与奢侈之间画一条界线。只有天使能这样做，天使是明智而热切的。
也许天使就是我们在太空中的更高尚的思想。
在托钵僧的心中找到自己的宝座的是真正的王子。
慷慨是超过自己能力的施与，自尊是少于自己需要的接受。
实际上你不欠任何人的债。你欠所有的人一切的债。
从前生活过的人现在都和我们一起活着。我们中间当然没有人愿意做一个慢客的主人。
想望得最多的人活得最长。
他们对我说："十鸟在树不如一鸟在手。"
我却说："一鸟一羽在树胜过十鸟在手。"
你对那根羽毛的追求，就是脚下生翼的生命；不，它就是生命的本身。
世界上只有两个原素，美和真；美在情人的心中，真在耕者的臂里。
伟大的美俘虏了我，但是一个更伟大的美居然把我从掌握中释放了。
美在想望它的人的心里比在看到它的人的眼里，放出更明亮的光彩。
我爱慕那对我倾诉心怀的人，我尊重那对我披露梦想的人。但是为什么在服侍我的人面前，我却腼腆，甚至于带些羞愧呢？
天才曾以能侍奉王子为荣。
现在他们以侍奉贫民为荣。
天使们晓得，有过多的讲实际的人，就着梦想者眉间的汗，吃他们的面包。
风趣往往是一副面具。你如能把它扯了下来，你将发现一个被激恼了的才智，或是在变着戏法的聪明。
聪明把聪明归功于我，愚钝把愚钝归罪于我。我想他俩都是对的。
只有自己心里有秘密的人才能参透我们心里的秘密。
只能和你同乐不能和你共苦的人，丢掉了天堂七个门中的一把钥匙。
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