同意，是自由的唯一途径。                    原文 | 伯特•海灵格

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Consent, is the very means to become free.

同意，是成为自由的唯一途径。

Once you begin to consenting, you don’t object to anything anymore, you don’t resist anything anymore.

你一旦开始同意，你就不再反对任何事情，你不再抗拒任何事情了。

First of all, you consent to your parents, as they are.

首先，你同意自己的父母，以他们的本来面目去同意他们；

And you consent to their ancestors, as they are.

你也同意他们的祖先，以他们的本来面目去同意他们；

And you consent to yourself, exactly as you are.

你也同意你们自己，完全以你自己的本来面目。

Don’t wish that anything should be different. You are the best possible edition of yourself.

不要祈愿什么应该不同，你是你自己所有可能中最好的版本。

And you consent to your guilt.

你也同意自己的内咎。

And you consent to everything you rejected before in yourself.

你同意所有你从前在内心拒绝过你自己的东西。

You look at it, and you say to everything that there is “yes, I consent.”

你看着它，对每一件事都说：是的，我同意。

And you feel what effect it has in your soul, and in yourbody, if you just consent.

去感觉如果你只是同意，它对你的心灵有什么样的影响，对你的身体有什么样的影响。

And you consent to your successes, and to your failures, equally.

你以平等的心，同意你自己的成功，也同意你自己的失败。

You grew by your successes, and you grew by your failures as well.

你经由自己的成功成长了，你也经由自己的失败成长了。

So by consenting, you can leave something behind, and move forward, with confidence.

所以经由同意，你可以放下一些，再往前走，带着自信地往前走。

And your conditions perhaps at work, or at school, or in your country, you consent it, exactly as it is.

你同意你的状况，可能是工作上的，或者是学校上的，或者是你的国家上的，完全以它本来的面目去同意它。

If there is a conflict, you consent to the one party, and you consent to the other party, and you consent here to the conflict, as it is.

如果存在冲突，你同意其中的一方，你也同意另外的一方，你也同意这个冲突本身，就以它的本来面目去同意它。

In this way, you gain strength.

以这样的方式，你得到了力量。

If there is anything which we object to, we lose strength.

如果有任何我们反对的，我们就会失去力量。

By consenting, we gain strength.

经由同意，我们得到了力量。

Because then we are in tune with everything.

因为那个时候，我们就跟所有的一切融合了。

If you have illness, or other special condition, you consent.

如果你生病了，或者有其他特殊状况，你也同意。

And then, anything you consent to, can leave you too after a time.

然后，所有你同意的事情过了一阵子之后，也可以离开你。

Once it is consented to, it will have completed its task.

一旦它得到了同意，它就已经完成了它的使命。

Consent to this feeling, exactly as it is. That is how it is.

同意你现在的感受，以它本来的面目去同意它，它就是这个样子的。

Just consenting. Breath deeply, slowly and deeply.

只要同意。深深地呼吸，缓慢地、深深地呼吸。

And consent to my smile, and to your smile of course too. There you are. Isn’t it wonderful if we consent?

同意我的微笑，当然也同意你自己的微笑。看吧！我们同意的时候不是很美吗？

By consenting, you left the feelings of a child. Now you are big, and strong, and able.

经由同意，你就离开了做孩子时候的感觉了。现在你长大了，很强壮，而且有能力。