每日智慧

Pleasure is one level of pleasantness, joy is another. Pleasure is beautiful, but it is enslaving. Joy is wonderful; above all it is liberating.
欢愉是愉悦的一个层次，喜悦是另一个层次。欢愉是美好的，但它是奴役人的。喜悦是美妙的；最重要的是，它是解放人的。

The nature of your consciousness manifests in every cell of your body, every moment of your life.
你意识的本质体现在你身体的每一个细胞里，你生命的每一个时刻。

Your parents gave you a human body. Whether you want to be raised by them or grow into a full-blown life is your choice.
你的父母给了你一个人类的身体。你是想由他们教养，还是想成长为一个全然绽放的生命，这是你的选择。

Everything comes from nothingness and goes back to nothingness. Nothingness or Shoonya is the basis of existence.
一切来自虚无，又回到虚无。虚无或Shoonya是存在的基础。

This human mechanism is the most sophisticated gadget on the planet. Have you read the user’s manual.
这个人类机制是地球上最复杂的装置。你读过用户手册了吗。

Once there is a little space between you and the body, between you and the mind, it will open up the possibility of experiencing the non-physical.
一旦你和你的身体之间、你和你的头脑之间有了一点空间，它就会打开体验到非物质的可能性。

For life to sparkle, it has to be inclusive. That is the way life is made.
生命要能闪耀光芒，它需要是包容的。这是生命被创造的方式。

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful – this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.
如果你消融了你的个性，你的存在就会变得非常强大——这就是灵性练习的本质。

Learning to treat nature sensibly and gently is not just for the wellbeing of nature – it is for our own wellbeing.
学会明智而温柔地对待自然不仅仅是为了自然的福祉——这也是为了我们自己的福祉。

Yoga essentially means that in search of wellbeing, you do not look up, you do not look out – you look inward.
瑜伽本质上意味着寻求幸福，你不向上看，也不向外看——你向内看。

Life is in the details. Just look at a flower or an ant, how intricately every piece of creation is engineered!
生命存在于细节之中。就只是看看一朵花或一只蚂蚁，每个造物都被设计得多么复杂精细啊！

If you make yourself into something truly wonderful, your children will look up and listen to you.
如果你把自己变成一个真正美好的人，你的孩子会抬起头来听你说话。

Modern societies are trying to limit the whole existence to the physical. The physical is only a base, not the real thing.
现代科学正试图将整个存在局限于物质层面。物质只是一个基础，不是那真正的东西。

You can contemplate your thoughts and emotions, but you cannot contemplate the self.
你可以审视你的思想和情感，但是你无法审视真我。

You are responsible for everything that you are and everything that you are not.
你对一切你所是的和你所不是的都有着责任。