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你生命旅程的内在目的 我能理解你所说的真理，但是我认为仍然必须在我们生命的旅程中有一些目标；否则，我们就会毫无目的地漂流，但是目标意味着未来？不是吗？我们应该如何将目标与活在当下相协调？ 当你旅行的时候，知道你要去哪里或者至少知道大致的方向，当然是很有帮助的。但是，别忘了：关于你旅行的唯一事情就是你在当下时刻所走的那一步。这才是一切。 你的生命旅程有一个外在目的和一个内在目的。外在目的是达到你的目标，完成这个或成就那个，这当然和未来有关。但是如果你的目标和你在未来将采取的行动占据了你太多的注意力，并且对你来说，它们比你现在所采取的步骤更为重要时，那就失去了你旅程的内在目的。 内在目的与你要去的地方或你正在做的事没有任何关系，但是它与你如何做事有着密切的关系。它与你的未来没有关系，但是与你此刻意识的质量有密切的关系。外在目的属于时间和空间的水平纬度，内在目的关乎无时间的当下时刻的垂直纬度里加深你的存在。 你外在的旅程可能包含着上百万个步伐；你内在的旅程却只有一步：你正在行动的那一步。随着你更多意识到这一步，你会认识到它已经包含了其他所有的步骤以及你的目标，然后这一步就会转化成一个完美的表述、一个绝美和有极佳质量的行动。它将会带着你进入存在，存在之光将会穿越它。这就是你内在旅程的目标和成就，一个航向你自己的旅程。 THE INNER PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY I can see the truth of what you are saying, but I still think that we must have purpose on our life's journey; otherwise we just drift, and purpose means future, doesn't it? How do we reconcile that with living in the present? When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget: the only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. Your life's journey has an outer purpose and an inner purpose. The outer purpose is to arrive at your goal or destination, to accomplish what you set out to do, to achieve this or that, which, of course, implies future. But if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey's inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment. The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now. Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. As you become more deeply aware of this one step, you realize that it already contains within itself all the other steps as well as the destination. This one step then becomes transformed into an expression of perfection, an act of great beauty and quality. It will have taken you into Being, and the light of Being will shine through it. This is both the purpose and the fulfillment of your inner journey, the journey into yourself. 摘自：当下的力量 |
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