献给六一 | 赛斯智语三则

生命并非由父母所给，而是通过父母——由生命本身，或者说由“一切万有”所给，而且“不附带任何条件”……它知道自己的确是宇宙的一个心爱的孩子，既古老又年轻，其身份远远超越了时间的记录。

Life is not given by the parent, but through the parent — by LIFE itself, or All That Is,  and “with no strings attached.”...It knows itself to be indeed a beloved child of the universe, both ancient and young at once, with an identity far beyond the annals of time.

父母双方所生的孩子也是地球的一个后裔，他的细胞组织无疑与任何一棵树、一朵花，或一阵飞溅的海浪一样是地球的一部分。他是一个人类的孩子，没错，但也是包含了整个地球历史的一个产物——一个新的创造物，不仅来自父母，而且来自大自然的整体完形，而父母本身也是从中诞生的；他是一个私人的，但又是公众的事件，在这一事件中，地球的物质元素变得个体化；在这一事件中，心灵与地球合作，成就了一个诞生，这诞生是人性的，而以另一种说法，也是神性的。

A child born to two parents is also an offspring of the earth, its tissues as surely a part of earth as any tree or flower, or burst of ocean spray. A human child, true; but an offspring in which the entire history of the earth is involved -- a new creation arising not just from two parents, but from the entire gestalt of nature, from which the parents themselves once emerged; a private yet public affair in which the physical elements of earth become individualized; in which psyche and earth cooperate in a birth that is human, and in other terms, divine.

所有的出生都是由孩子和父母共同决定的……每个人选择了自己的父母，在环境和遗传方面接受了一大堆他在物质生活中所汲取的各种特征、态度和能力。

All births are deliberate on the part of child and parent...Each person chooses his parents, accepting in terms of environment and heredity a bank of various characteristics, attitudes and abilities from which he draws in physical life.