在基督教裡，進入天國的門是窄的，
因為不少信了教的人，內心依然有高層次的詭詐，
就是擁抱虛偽，事奉兩個主人，
根本不願意打開他們的心，讓耶穌基督進入，
靈魂尚未甦醒的人，怎可能認識神？
God is day and night, winter and summer,
war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
( Heraclitus )
It is the greatest of all disciplines
to know one-self,
for when a man knows himself, he knows God.
( Clement of Alexandria )
I looked in temples, churches, and mosques.
But I found the Divine within my heart.
( Rumi )
The knower and the known are one.
Simple people imagine that they should see God
as if he stood there and they here.
This is not so.
God and I, we are one in knowledge.
( Meister Eckhart )
筆者認為上面的三句，應該就是基督教裡
「背負十字架，和耶穌基督同負一軛」的真正意思。
如果不能夠和耶穌基督同負一軛，信徒與非信徒有甚麼分別呢？
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
( Stephen R. Covey )
不論任何宗教，「活在當下」和某些教徒的生活極為吻合，
因為「活在當下」就是生活在信仰之中！
參考：《信念》(一) 《信念》(二) 《信念》(三) 《信仰》
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it, take with you your all.
( Kahlil Gibran )
「活在當下」不能夠沒有堅持的價值，不能夠沒有責任和承擔，
因為「活在當下」是對自己的人生負責，並不是逃避責任。
I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest,
insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted,
or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.
( Eugene Gendlin )
We purchase freedom at the cost of security…
and critical awareness at the cost of our peace of mind.
( Bryan Magee )
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom,
and yet deprecate agitation, are men
who want crops without plowing up the ground.
They want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean
without the awful roar of its many waters.
( Frederick Douglass, West India Emancipation Speech,
August 4, 1857 )
生命在乎經歷、體驗、在乎思考和學習、在乎智慧和心靈的成長；
不在乎擁有 to have，
從心靈的角度來看，經歷、體驗、思考、學習，
都是一種享受 to be，都是「及時行樂」，
因為隨著生命的消逝，一切東西最終都留不住。
所以姑勿論我們現在的智慧到達甚麼層次，
「活在當下」就是接受生命的挑戰，不斷地學習。
Accept ─ then act.
Whatever the present moment contains,
accept it as you haven chosen it.
Always work with it, not against it …
This will miraculously transform your whole life.
( Eckhart Tolle )
I have crossed the seas,
I have left cities behind me, and I have followed
the source of rivers towards their source or
plunged into forests, always making for other cities.
I have had women, I have fought with men;
and I could never turn back
any more than a record can spin in reverse.
And all that was leading me where？
To this very moment…
( Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea )
參考： 《愛智是一種信仰》
最後，請不要忘記，
「活在當下」可以成為拖延 procrastination 重要抉擇的藉口！
Professor Helga Drummond
The Psychology of Doing Nothing