12 truths I learned from life and writing
美國作家Anne Lamott分享她的人生智慧
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Lamott
1. All truth is a paradox.
人生不盡完美，總有其矛盾之處。
2. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes─ including you.
3. There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way...
許多事總要靠自己，別人是幫不上忙的。同樣的，別人的問題，我們也常使不上勁 。總是要多靠自己找答案，想辦法才行。
4. Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared, even the people who seem to have it most together.
每個人都有其難處，不能光看表象。
5. Chocolate with 75 percent cacao is not actually a food.
6. Writing.
Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts, but they keep their butt in the chair. That's the secret of life.
寫作從草稿開始，持續寫，一再修稿，靠的是恆毅力。
她提出兩個要點：
bird by bird and really god-awful first drafts.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/17/reviews/lamott-bird.html
7. Publication and temporary creative successes are something you have to recover from.
創作、出版，有人讀，是奇蹟。
但是要清醒，不要因而昏頭了。
要看重的是寫作的歷程。
8. Families.
Families are hard, hard, hard, no matter how cherished and astonishing they may also be. Again, see number one.
Earth is forgiveness school.
家，有其矛盾之處。
學習寬恕自己，也寬恕家人，以愛相待。
9. Food.
Try to do a little better.
10. Grace.
The movement of grace is what changes us, heals us and heals our world.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grace
要具幽默感，
常大笑，
(Laughter really is carbonated holiness. It helps us breathe again and again and gives us back to ourselves, and this gives us faith in life and each other.)
11. God just means goodness.
A good name for God is: "Not me."
Emerson: The happiest person on Earth is the one who learns from nature the lessons of worship.
要仰望，
神是恩慈的。
12. Death.
Death is as sacred as birth. And don't worry — get on with your life.
Ram Dass: When all is said and done, we're really just all walking each other home.
人生，
要學習，
心靈，
要成長。
