【作者】Eileen Caddy
【翻譯】熊倩涵
【編輯】顏士寶
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. A snake cannot grow without shedding its old skin. A baby chick cannot emerge from its shell without cracking it open. A baby cannot be born without emerging from its mother’s womb. These natural processes have to come about to bring change. Step by step they take place, and nothing can stop them. If the baby chick does not have the strength to burst out of its shell, it will die. There is a right time for everything. You can try to prevent changes taking place because you feel safe and secure where you are and would rather stay in the confines of that which you know rather than move out into the unknown; but in those confines you will suffocate and die. Try to understand and accept the need to change with everything that is taking place at this time. Lift up your heart and give thanks for these changes and become part of them.
我們通過意識的更新而得到轉化。一條蛇無法長大，如果它不脫去舊的皮。一隻小雞寶寶沒有辦法出生，如果它不破殼而出。一個小寶寶沒辦法誕生，如果它不從母胎中露出來。要帶來改變，這些自然的進程必須得發生。它們一步步地發生，沒有什麼可以阻止它們。如果小雞寶寶沒有破殼而出的力量，它就會死去。每一件事情都有它對的時機。我可以嘗試防止改變的發生因為我在我所處的地方感到安全牢靠，於是願意呆在已知的限制當中，而不是進入未知的地帶；但在這些限制中，我會窒息而死。試著去理解並接納在此刻正發生的一切改變的需求。提升我的心靈，感恩那些變化，並成為它們的一部分。
