你是否说过我们的选择可能让我们孤独——我并不会责备现代生活。

HAVE YOUR SAY Our choices might make us lonely - I wouldn't blame modern life.

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想要过一种灵性的生活我们必须有进入我们孤独沙漠的勇气，并通过持续不断的努力改变我们独处的花园。

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

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孩子们饱受饥荒，无辜者遭受压迫者的折磨，无助的老人在自己儿子的眼中变成招人厌恶的累赘，以及所有孤独、贫困与痛苦一一这都是对人类应该过的生活的嘲弄。

Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

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He kept himself solitary and chaste. He devoted himself to poetry.

他过着孤独朴素的生活，致力于诗歌创作。

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