CHAPTER 3 ROMANCING THE PRESENT
第三章 活在當下
Focus on today. Tomorrow is but a fantasy; yesterday is but a memory. Today is the only reality.
Anonymous
集中在今天。明天只是幻想; 昨天只是回憶。今天是唯一的真實。
無名氏
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment widely and earnestly.
Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
身心健康的秘密在於，不哀悼過去，不憂慮未來，廣大而認真的活在此時此刻。
釋迦摩尼(西元前563-483)
A magical perspective: If, in your mind, you can bring up the drawbridges on yesterday and tomorrow and restrict yourself to today…your cares will evaporate and your joys will skyrocket.
Anonymous
魔法般的觀點：在你心中，如果你能升起昨日和明日之間的吊橋，限定自己活在今日------你的煩惱將消失、歡樂將高漲。
無名氏
Stay present. You‘ll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
Dan Millman
住在當下。如果你真的要擔憂，以後總是有時間擔憂。
丹 密爾曼
Forever is but a trail of ‘ Nows ‘. The best a man can do is live every one fully in its turn.
Author Unknown
永遠只是一連串的“現在‘’。人能做的是在每一個現在徹底的活。
作者不詳
I don‘t know what tomorrow will bring - except old age and death - but I do know that I do have today, one absolutely glorious day that I will savor and make the most of as if it were my last one… because it may be!
G.W.F. (1946-1988?)
除了老化和死亡，我不知道明天會帶來什麼。但是我真的知道我確實擁有今天，絕對美好的一天。我要好好品嚐這一天、充分利用這一天，好像它是我最後的一天-------因為，它很可能是最後一天。
G.W.F.(1946-1988?)
Death plucks my ears and says, “ Live, I am coming. “
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
(Radio address on his ninetieth birthday)
死亡扯著我的耳朵，說道，“活著，我已經來了”。
小奧利佛 溫淂爾 休姆（1841-1935）
(九十歲時電台演說)
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson(1709-84)
相信我，先生，如果一個人知道兩星期內它就要被吊死，這會讓他的頭腦驚人的集中。
撒姆耳 詹森(1709-84)
I should like to enjoy this summer flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one for me.
Andre Gide (1869-1951)
我會一朵花一朵花的享受這個夏季，就好像是我最後一個夏季。
安得列 及得(1869-1951)
You don‘t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you‘re going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
你無法選擇怎麼死、什麼時候死。你只能夠決定怎麼活。現在。
瓊 拜斯
Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you‘re going to miss in the years ahead.
Author Unknown
好好享受。來年你還是會錯過許多好時光。
作者不詳
These are magic years… and therefore magic days… and therefore magic moments.
Anonymous
這是神奇的歲月---神奇的日子---神奇的片刻。
無名氏
We don‘t remember days; we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese (1908-50)
我們不記得日子;我們記得的是片刻。
希塞耳 帕為斯(1908-50)
Life is nothing but a series of moments. Start living the moments and the years will take care of themselves.
G.W.F.
生命是一連串的片刻,不是別的。開始依片刻來活，年月會照顧他們自己。
G.W.F.
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
Buddha(563-483B.C.)
生命在此刻運行。失去此刻就失去生命。
釋迦摩尼(西元前563-483)
It‘s only possible to live happily ever after on a moment-to-moment basis.
Margaret Bonnano
從此以後要快樂的活著,只有片刻接片刻的方式才可能。
馬格利特 伯那諾
In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead.
Dan Millman
在每一個片刻，你生命的品質有成列的選擇。你可以充分的活著，也可以相對的死亡。
丹 米爾曼
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
對於能夠洞察到這個道理的人，每一個片刻都是黃金片刻。
亨利 米勒(1891-1980)
For you, the world is weird because if you‘re not bored with it you’re at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while; in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda), adapted
對你來說，這個世界很奇怪。因為你不是厭煩它，就是反對它。對我來說，這個世界也很奇怪。它是驚人、可畏、神祕、深不可測的。我勸你要將每一個行動納入計算，因為你只來到這裡短暫的時間。事實上是非常短，短到你無法見證它的奇妙。
唐 求安(卡勒斯 卡司坦達)，改寫
Do not delay; the golden moments fly !
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
別遲疑; 黃金時刻會飛走！
亨利 華斯握斯 隆非羅(1807-82)
Every now and then, I become absolutely obsessed with the moment…but not nearly enough.
Anonymous
時常，我非常著迷於某個片刻----但一點也不夠。
無名氏
There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real. This does not mean you live for the moment. It means you live the moment.
Leo Buscaglia
只有此刻。現在。你在這一瞬間經驗到的才是真實的。這不是說你為此刻而活，而是你活在此刻。
李奧 巴斯卡格李雅
We all cling to the past or long for the future, making us unavailable to the present.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, adapted
我們依戀於過去或渴望於未來，以致於無法利用現在。
巴格溫 許利 拉力許，改寫
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
當你走路、吃、旅行的時候，人要在那裡。否則你會錯過大部分的生命。
釋迦摩尼(西元前563-483)
Great is the man who has not lost his child-like heart.
Mencius (371-288 B.C.)
未曾失去赤子之心的人是最了不起的。
門席爾斯(西元前371-288)
On Arturo Toscanini‘s eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter, what his father ranked as his most important achievement. The son replied, “ For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life - whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange. “
Ardis Whitman
在阿度羅八十歲生日，有人問他兒子華特，他父親自認最重要的成就是什麼。華特回答：“對他而言沒有這種東西。他在某個片刻正好在做的事就是最重要的事---不論是在指揮交響樂或剝橘子皮‘’
雅提斯 懷特曼
You‘re searching, Joe, for things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
喬，你在尋找不存在的東西。我指開始這種東西。沒有開始、也沒有結束，只有中間的過程。
羅伯特 佛洛斯特(1874-1963)
The little things ? The little moments ? They aren‘t little.
Jon Kabat - Zinn
小事情？小片刻？它們一點都不小。
炯 卡倍特—晉
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable.
Margaret Storm Jameson
活著的唯一方法是將每一分鐘都視為不可重複的奇蹟，就是這樣，奇蹟，而且不會重複的。
馬格利特 斯托姆 詹姆森
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath - so what does that make today worth ?!
Og Mandino (1923-96),adapted
即使用全世界的黃金也不能替一個垂死的人多買一口氣，所以，知道今天的價值了嗎？
歐格 曼迪諾(1923-96)，改寫
Every day is my best day; this is my life. I‘m not going to have this moment again.
Bernie Siegel
每一天都是我最好的一天;這是我的生命。我不會再度擁有這個片刻。
伯尼 席格爾
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia
為明天而活，就是永遠脫離現實一天。
李奧 巴斯卡格李雅
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
在你做得到的時候摘你的玫瑰花雷，舊時光飛去;今天聞得到的花朵，明天將會凋謝。
羅伯特 賀立克(1591-1674)
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
願你活過生命中的每一天。
求那山 史威伏特(1667-1745)
