So I have held myself back just by my not realizing that when success comes, you have to go with it and build it,".

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Because when I try to imagine a world in which I'm dead, I smuggle myself back in.

因为当我想象自己死后的世界时，会再度将自己带入其中。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And perhaps that is pastoral in a way, going back to what you said, that I do think of myself in many ways as doing pastoral counseling, particularly in the most difficult circumstances when there's been a crisis, a death, a serious accident.

也许某种意义上这像是种牧师与受众，回到你刚才说的，很多时候我觉得自己,就是作为一个牧师指导学生，尤其是在极其困难的情况下,比如出现了危机，伤亡，或者严重事故。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Yet despite the false starts, and the trials, and the years of famine, and the childlessness, and the infertility, the seed of Abraham survives, and the promise is reiterated: "I will go down myself with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you back."

但尽管有错误的开始，试验和多年饥荒，断子绝孙和贫瘠，亚伯拉罕的子孙还是得以幸免，许诺被重新申明：,“我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Every time I try to picture myself being dead, I smuggle myself back in, conscious and existing as a person, hence, not dead as a person.

每次我想象自己的死亡时，就会将自己带入，有意识作为人而存在的状态，所以也就不再处于死亡了。

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