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Even a stone can be a teacher (1985) 顽石亦吾师

绝句摘译：（徐冰译）

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

p. 11

你可选择生活，也可以选择死亡。选择了生活，我就必须接受它本来的样子，生活下去！

It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

p. 20

你们口口声声的“现实”不是我的菜，亲身体验喜爱或恐惧对我而言更实际，冰冷的科学结论经不起时间的磨损，我在幻想和静默中找到了更多的趣味。

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

p. 85

我们要为自己的错误、失败颁发许可证，而且直到死亡，都不要忘记每天让自己出出洋相，在任何场合。

We make a mistake if we ask ourselves, "Am I good enough?" or "Is it worthwhile to be me?" … Whoever heard of a baby who was inadequate or a child who did not know just exactly how to be a child? How could it not be all right for me to be me? How could it not be just right for you to be you?

p. 106

不要怀疑自己够不够好，或坚持下去值不值得，这就错了。谁见过不够格儿的婴孩？或不知该怎样的孩子？我是不亏不盈的我，你又怎能不是完美的你？

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

p. 112

保持胜券在握的假象是孤独和徒劳的。长远看来，绝不值得为此奋斗。

Sheldon Kopp (March 29, 1929 – March 29, 1999) was an American psychotherapist and author.

谢尔顿·考普系华盛顿（DC ）大学教授，长期从事教学和心理学实践活动，于1999年逝世，著作约17部，为现代人重拾生活勇气，度过充实、丰富、健康的人生而不懈写作与实践，是位值得人们尊重和牢记的心理学学者。本人计划翻译他的代表作If you meet Buddha on the road, kill Him! 愿对有缘者有所利益。

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