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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 64 (142):我的天性
So what is my natural character? I love studying in this Ashram, but my dream of finding divinity by gliding silently through the place with a gentle, ethereal smile—who is that person? That'2012-06-27 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 65 (143):招待善男信女
What I will be hosting, to be exact, is a series of retreats to be held at the Ashram this spring. During each retreat, about a hundred devotees will come here from all over the world for a period of2012-06-28 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 65 (145):我帮得上忙
As the retreats begin, it is so quickly evident how much I am made for this job. I'm sitting there at the Welcome Table with my Hello, My Name Is badge, and these people are arriving from thi2012-06-29 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 65 (145):勇敢的人
I love all these people, automatically and unconditionally. I even love the pain-in-the-ass ones. I can see through their neuroses and recognize that they're just horribly afraid of what they2012-07-02 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 66 (146):第四境状态
The topic of the retreat, and its goal, is the turiya state—the elusive fourth level of human consciousness. During the typical human experience, say the Yogis, most of us are always moving between2012-07-03 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 67 (148):难以形容的宗教体验
As a reader and seeker, I always get frustrated at this moment in somebody else's spiritual memoirs—that moment in which the soul excuses itself from time and place and merges with the infin2012-07-06 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 66 (147):人人追求的东西
This is what everyone has come here for.这正是人人来此追求的东西。When I initially wrote that sentence, what I meant by it was: "This is why these one hundred retreat participants from all over2012-07-05 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 67 (149):体验自己的无限
The place in which I was standing can't be described like an earthly location. It was neither dark nor light, neither big nor small. Nor was it a place, nor was I technically standing there,2012-07-09 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 68 (150):走出静默
The retreat ended two days later, and everyone came out of silence. I got so many hugs from people, thanking me for having helped them.两天后，静修结束，大家走出静默。许多人都过来拥抱我，感谢我帮他们2012-07-10 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 68 (151):我在印度
As for whatever other changes may have occurred within me during these last few months, perhaps I can't even feel them yet. My friends who have been studying Yoga for a long time say you don&2012-07-11 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 69 (152):住在边境的人
By the way, I found my word.顺便提一下，我找到了我的用词。I found it in the library, of course, bookworm that I am. I'd been wondering about my word ever since that afternoon back in Rome whe2012-07-12 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 70 (153):尝试脱离凡俗
I believe that all the world's religions share, at their core, a desire to find a transporting metaphor. When you want to attain communion with God, what you're really trying to do is2012-07-13 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 70 (154):理解纷繁复杂
The other objective of religion, of course, is to try to make sense of our chaotic world and explain the inexplicabilities we see playing out here on earth every day: the innocent suffer, the wicked2012-07-16 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 70 (155):奇迹与失落的交集
I have a dear friend whose first child was born right after his beloved mother died. After this confluence of miracle and loss, my friend felt a desire to have some kind of sacred place to go, or som2012-07-17 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 71 (156):第一次熬夜祈祷
My flight leaves India at four in the morning, which is typical of how India works. I decide not to go to sleep at all that night, but to spend the whole evening in one of the meditation caves, in pr2012-07-18 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 72 (157):印度诗二首之一
Two Poems from an Ashram in India来自印度道场的两首诗First第一首All this talk of nectar and bliss is starting to piss me off.这些甘露天堂的言谈开始令我倒胃，I don't know about you, my friend,2012-07-19 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 72 (158):印度诗二首之二
Second第二首However.不过，If they'd let me wear pants made out of the fresh-mown grass from this place,倘若要我穿上此地新割之草编成的长裤，I'd do it.我会这么做。If they'd let2012-07-20 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 73 (159):抵达巴厘岛
I've never had less of a plan in my life than I do upon arrival in Bali. In all my history of careless travels, this is the most carelessly I've ever landed anyplace. I don't2012-07-24 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 74 (160):穿行巴厘岛
But Bali is a fairly simple place to navigate. It's not like I've landed in the middle of the Su-dan with no idea of what to do next. This is an island approximately the size of Delaw2012-07-25 编辑：Jasmine
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[美食祈祷和恋爱] 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 74 (161):遇到老三
By the time I unpack my bags it's still early afternoon, so I decide to take myself for a walk, get reoriented to this town I haven't seen in two years. And then I'll try to f2012-07-27 编辑：Jasmine
