5. Love
5. 愛

Aphorisms
格言

To an angelic soul love means glorification.
To a jinn soul love means admiration.
To a human soul love means affection.
To an animal soul love means passion.

對天使性的靈魂而言，愛意味著頌揚。
對精靈性的靈魂而言，愛意味著仰慕。
對人性的靈魂而言，愛意味著深情。
對動物性的靈魂而言，愛意味著激情。

One need not fall in love, one must rise through love.

人不需要墜入愛中，而應當藉由愛向上提升。

Pour out floods of love, yet keeping your garment of detachment from being wet.

傾瀉出洪流般的愛，卻仍不讓超然的衣裳被愛之水沾濕。

Questions and Answers
問與答

Question: Can love exceed wisdom or can wisdom exceed love? What happens in either case? Is love measured according to love, or is wisdom measured according to love?

問：愛能超越智慧嗎？或者智慧能超越愛嗎？無論是哪一種情形，會發生什麼？愛是以愛來衡量，還是智慧以愛來衡量？

Answer: It is true that wise is loving and loving is truly wise, although in one person wisdom may be predominant and in another love. But both love and wisdom are needed. The cold-hearted man is never wise, and the really warm-hearted person is never foolish. Yet both these qualities, love and wisdom, are distinct and separate, and it is possible that a person may be loving but lacking wisdom, and it happens that a person who is wise may be lacking love to some extent. But no one can be wise if love is absent from his heart-call him clever. And no one will be truly loving if wisdom has not illuminated his heart, for love comes from wisdom and wisdom comes from love.

答：真正有智慧的人必然有愛，而真正有愛的人也必然有智慧，這確實如此；儘管在一個人身上，智慧可能較為突出，而在另一個人身上，愛可能較為突出。然而，愛與智慧兩者都是不可或缺的。冷漠無情的人絕不是真正有智慧的人，而真正心懷溫暖的人也絕不會愚昧。儘管如此，愛與智慧仍是兩種彼此有別的品質；一個人可能有愛，卻缺乏智慧，也可能有智慧，卻在某種程度上缺乏愛。然而，如果一個人的心中沒有愛，他就不可能真正有智慧——充其量只能稱他聰明。同樣地，如果智慧尚未照亮一個人的心，他也不可能真正懂得愛；因為愛來自智慧，而智慧也來自愛。

It is very difficult to say what love is and how one can love. Is it embracing people and running after them and saying sweet words to them? What could one show when one is loving?-for every person has a different way of expressing his love. One person perhaps has love hidden in his heart which does not manifest, and another person’s love comes out in his words and actions. The love of one person rises like vapor and charges the whole atmosphere, and another person’s love is like a spark hidden in a stone: outside the stone is cold, inside there is a spark.

要說清楚愛究竟是什麼，以及一個人要如何去愛，是非常困難的。愛就是擁抱別人、追隨著別人，對他們說甜蜜的話嗎？一個人在愛的時候，究竟能以什麼來表現愛？每個人表達愛的方式都不同。有些人的愛深藏在心中，從不顯露；另一些人的愛則流露於言語與行動之中。一個人的愛可能像蒸氣般升起，充滿整個氛圍；另一個人的愛則像藏在石頭裡的一點火星：石頭表面冰冷，其中卻蘊藏著火。

Therefore to judge who has love and who has not is not in the power of every person, it is a very difficult thing. For instance love is a fire rising from a cracker calling out, “I am love!” but it burns out and is finished. There is also fire in the pebble which never manifests. If you hold the pebble it feels cold, yet at the same time the fire is there. Some day you can strike it and it is there, it is dependable, it lasts. As many people as there are, so many are the different qualities of their love, and one cannot judge.

因此，要判斷誰有愛、誰沒有愛，並不是人人都能做到的事；這是極為困難的。譬如，有一種愛像爆竹迸出的火焰，大聲宣告：「我就是愛！」然而它燃燒片刻，很快便熄滅了。小石子裡也藏著火，只是從不顯露。你把石子握在手中，只會感到冰冷，但火其實一直存在其中。有一天，當你敲擊它時，火星便會顯現；它可靠，而且持久。世上有多少人，愛就有多少不同的品質，因此不能輕易判斷。

Question: Is jealousy inseparable from human love?

問：嫉妒與人類的愛是否密不可分？

Answer: It is like asking, “Is the shadow separable from the body?” Where there is form there is shadow; where there is human love there is Jealousy.

答：這就像是在問：「影子能和身體分開嗎？」凡有形體之處，就有影子；凡有人性的愛之處，就有嫉妒。

Love can bring out what is worst and best in man.

愛能將一個人身上最壞的，也能將最好的，都引發出來。

Love can take many forms, even that of indifference.

愛可以採取許多不同的形式，甚至可以表現為漠然。

I remember I went once for a relative to the house of a physician, an Indian physician who had a very ancient method of writing his prescriptions. Each took him nearly ten minutes. I was shown into a small room where fifteen to twenty people were already waiting, and I sat down among them. He continued to write prescriptions for all who came, and when he had finished with those who were before me he began to write prescriptions for those who had come after me. I had thought that the physician, as a friend of the family, would have seen me first, but he went on until he had seen everyone, and I was the last.

我記得有一次，我為了一位親人去拜訪一名印度醫師。這位醫師開處方的方式十分古老，每開一張處方差不多都要花上十分鐘。我被帶進一個小房間，裡面已經有十五到二十個人在等候，我便坐在他們之中。他繼續為每一位前來看診的人開處方；看完那些比我先到的人之後，他又開始替那些比我晚來的人開處方。我原以為這位醫師既然是我們家的朋友，應該會先看我；然而，他一直看完了所有人，最後才輪到我。

Finally he said to me, “Now tell me what you have to say.” I told him, and he wrote out the prescription without any haste, and when I was leaving he said, “I hope you understand that I did not want to see you while all the other patients were still there. I wanted to see you at leisure.” He was doing me a favor, and though he tried my patience it was still a majestic sort of favor, It gave me a good example of love in the form of indifference.

最後，他對我說：「現在告訴我，你有什麼事。」我把事情告訴他，他不疾不徐地寫好了處方。就在我要離開時，他說：「我希望你明白，我之所以不願在其他病人都還在的時候看你，是因為我想從容地為你看診。」他其實是在特別照顧我；雖然這件事著實考驗了我的耐心，卻仍是一種極有氣度的善意。它讓我看見了一個很好的例子：愛也可以採取漠然的形式。

With indifference one still must have sympathy and love; be more and more sensitive as one evolves.

即使保持漠然，心中仍然必須有體恤與愛；一個人越是成長，就應當變得越來越敏銳。

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