Know ＆ Be Thyself--活在當下

As a man in his last breath

Drops all he is carrying

Each breath is a little death

That can send us free.

                                                --Mark Nepo

就如人的最後一口氣

放下他所有攜帶的東西

每一口氣都是一個小小的死亡

可以將我們送往自由。

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