信念不是被动等待,而是主动的想象和感受。
Faith is not passive waiting; it is active imagination and feeling.
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away。 And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh。
然后我有了信仰,然后我有了想象,我被他们对嘲笑的沉迷所感染,然后我看见刚果河从黑土地上蜿蜒流过,在森林中划下一道金色的沟壑。
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.