Love Deeply 深爱

原作者：Henri Nouwen

译者：hazeljoyful

Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause. When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that comes from deep love makes your love ever more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root and grow into a strong plant. Every time you experience the pain of rejection, absence, or death, you are faced with a choice. You can become bitter and decide not to love again, or you can stand straight in your pain and let the soil on which you stand become richer and more able to give life to new seeds.

别怕去爱，别怕去深爱。你或许害怕深爱可能造成的痛苦。当深爱的人拒绝你、离开你或者去世，你会经历心碎。但那不该拦阻你去深爱。来自深爱的痛苦会令你的爱更加丰盛，就像犁掘开地面，让种子可以扎根，长成健壮的植株。每次经历拒绝、失去或死亡，你都面临一个选择：可以变得苦毒，决定不再去爱；或者可以在痛苦之地依然站立，让立足的土地更加肥沃，能够为新种子带来生命。

The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. They will become part of your self and thus gradually build a community within you.

你爱得越多，容许自己因爱受伤的程度越大，你的心就变得越宽广深邃。当你的爱是真实给予和接受时，那些你爱的人便不会离开你的心，哪怕他们已经不在你生活里。他们会成为你自己的一部分，在你里面逐渐形成一个小群体。

Those you have deeply loved become part of you. The longer you live, there will always be more people to be loved by you and to become part of your inner community. The wider your inner community becomes, the more easily you will recognize your own brothers and sisters in the strangers around you. Those who are alive within you will recognize those who are alive around you. The wider the community of your heart, the wider the community around you. Thus the pain of rejection, abscence and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.

那些你深爱过的人，成为你的一部分。你活得越久，就会有越多人被你所爱，并成为你内心小群体的一部分。你的内心小群体越广阔，你就越容易从周围的陌生人中认出你自己的弟兄姐妹。那些活在你里面的人，会认出那活在你周围的人。你心中的小群体越广阔，你身外的小群体就越广阔。于是，拒绝、失去和死亡的痛苦可以变得丰盛。诚然，在深爱之时，你的心灵疆土将会不断被破碎，然而你会因它终将结出丰盛的果实而欢喜快乐。