我曾七次鄙视自己的灵魂
纪伯伦
- 第一次，当它本可进取时，却故作谦卑；
- 第二次，当它在空虚时，用爱欲来填充；
- 第三次，在困难和容易之间，它选择了容易；
- 第四次，它犯了错，却借由别人也会犯错误来宽慰自己；
- 第五次，因软弱而忍耐，并把这种忍耐归于坚强而聊以慰藉；
- 第六次，当它鄙夷一张丑恶的嘴脸时，却不知那正是自己面具中的一副；
- 第七次，唱起颂歌，还以美德自诩。
Seven times have despised my soul
Kahlil Gibran
- The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height.
- The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.
- The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.
- The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong.
- The fifth time when she forbore for weekness, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
- And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.
