You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
【译文】我每天多次省察我自己:为别人做事有没有尽力,和朋友交往有没有不真诚,教别人的东西自己有没有研习好。
重要的事往往最难以启齿,因为言语会缩小其重要性;要让素昧平生的人在意你生命中的美好事物,原本就不容易。
The true artist is not proud; he knows that art is greater than himself.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.