【作者】Eileen Caddy
【翻譯】熊倩涵
【編輯】顏士寶
It is not easy to turn the other cheek when someone hits out at you, in either word or deed. The immediate reaction is to hit back, but here is where reactions have to be watched with the greatest care and where self-control and complete selflessness have to be put into practice. Those souls who have not learnt self-discipline will give back as good as they get and feel justified in doing so. Then they will wonder why there is so much chaos and confusion in the world. They are so blind they cannot see that until they have learnt to change their whole outlook and start to love their neighbour as themselves, they cannot hope to change what is going on in the world. The more love and goodwill there is, the quicker will change come. But it all starts in you. Therefore the sooner you realize it, the sooner will changes take place all around you, and so out into the world. Why not start doing something about it now?
當別人打我的左臉，將右臉也轉過去，是不容易做到的，無論是言語上的還是行為上的。立刻的反應是回擊，但這就是需要仔細地去覺察反應的時候，這就是去踐行自控力與全然的忘我的時候。那些還沒有學會自律的靈魂們會像他們所遭受到的一樣報復回去，並感到如此是合乎情理的。然後他們會想知道為何世上有如此多的混亂與動蕩。他們是如此一葉障目，他們看不到，直到他們學習改變自己的全部態度，開始如愛己一樣去愛人，在那之前他們是沒有改變這世界的狀態的希望的。
愛與善意越多，改變就會越快到來。但這一切都從我的內在開始。因此我越快意識到它，改變就會越快在我周圍發生，然後也會向世界傳遞出去。為什麼不現在就為此做些什麼呢？
