o这两本书其实都探讨了生离死别的话题,《朝圣》是生的顿悟,《呼吸》则是向死而生,推荐大家去看看~下面分享一些《呼吸》里的选段
o“When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man's days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
o当你在生命中的许多时刻,必须对自己进行一番审视,列出你在这世界上的所做、所为、所代表的一切时,我祈求你不要忽视,你曾让一个将死之人的日子充满了满足的喜悦,一种我在过去的岁月中从未知晓的喜悦,一种不再渴望更多、而是心满意足的喜悦。在此时此刻,这是一件极其重要的事情。
o“I would push myself to return to the O.R. Why? Because I could. Because that's who I was. Because I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
o我会强迫自己回到手术室。为什么?因为我可以。因为那就是我。因为我必须学会以一种不同的方式生活,把死亡看作一个威风凛凛、不时造访的贵客,但心里要清楚,即使我是个将死之人,我仍然还活着,直到真正死去的那一刻。
o“I didn't ask myself, 'Why me?' (The answer is: Why not me?)”
o我没有问自己 “为什么是我?”(答案是:为什么不是我?)