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悦读｜《力量》：让你拥有想要的一切
《力量》（The Power, 2011）一书是澳大利亚电视制片人和作家朗达·拜恩（Rhonda Byrne）继全球畅销书《秘密》（The Secret, 2006）之后创作的又一部畅销经典。《秘密》让全世界数千万人以难以置信的方式改变生命，《力量》则集结了《秘密》面世后朗达·拜恩所领悟到的全部精华；《秘密》揭露了吸引力法则，《力量》则是吸引力法则的实用指南。
（朗读：广东外语外贸大学高级翻译学院 倪萍）
《力量》（节选） By Rhonda Byrne 文/朗达·拜恩译/王莉莉
Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things—positive things and negative things. Each area of your life, whether it's your health, money, relationships, work, or happiness, is either positive or negative to you. You have plenty of money or you lack money. You are brimming with health or you lack health. Your relationships are happy or difficult. Your work is exciting and successful or dissatisfying and unsuccessful. You are filled with happiness or you don’t feel good a lot of the time. You have good years or bad years, good times or bad times, good days or bad days. If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it. You see other people who are happy and fulfilled and whose lives are full of great things, and something tells you that you deserve all that too. And you're right; you do deserve a life overflowing with good things.人生其实很单纯，只有正面事物及负面事物这两种组成元素。你人生的每个层面，无论是健康、金钱、人际关系、工作或快乐，对你来说不是正面就是负面——你可能拥有很多金钱或手头拮据；你的身体可能很健康或疾病缠身；你的人际关系可能很圆融，也可能很不顺；你从事的工作可能令你振奋且成就斐然，或者你对工作不满且屡遭失败；你可能幸福美满，也可能大部分时间都不快乐；你的人生可能高低起伏，有好日子，也有苦日子。假如你人生中的负面事物多于正面事物，你就知道一定有什么地方不对劲。当你看到别人过得快乐且充实，生活中充满了很棒的事情时，你心底的某处告诉你，其实你也值得拥有那些东西——你是对的，你的确值得拥有一个满溢着美好事物的人生。
Most people who have a great life don' t realize exactly what it was that they did to get it. But they did do something. They used the power that is the cause of everything good in life…大多数拥有美好人生的人不知道他们到底做了什么事，才拥有这样的人生，但他们的确是做了某件事。他们使用了一股力量，而这股力量正是生命中所有美好事物发生的起因……
Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love!每个拥有美好人生的人都是运用爱达成的，毫无例外。能让人拥有生命中所有正面和美好事物的力量，就是爱！
Love has been talked about and written about since the beginning of time, in every religion, and by every great thinker, philosopher, prophet, and leader. But many of us have not truly understood their wise words. Even though their teachings were specifically for people in their time, their one truth and message to the world is still the same today: love because when you love you are using the greatest power in the universe.有史以来，每个宗教，以及每一位伟大的思想家、哲学家先知和领导者都一直在谈论爱、描写爱，但许多人无法了解他们的智慧话语。虽然他们的教导是针对那个时代的人，不过他们带给世界的唯一真理和讯息仍适用于现代：去爱吧，因为当你爱的时候，你就运作了宇宙间最伟大的力量。
Everything you want to be, do, or have comes from love. Without love, you wouldn't move. There would be no positive force to propel you to get up in the morning, to work, play, dance, talk, learn, listen to music, or do anything at all. You'd be like a stone statue. It is the positive force of love that inspires you to move and gives you the desire to be, do, or have anything. The positive force of love can create anything good, increase the good things, and change anything negative in your life. You have the power over your health, your wealth, your career, your relationships, and every area of your life. And that power love is inside you.你想成为、实现或拥有的一切都来自爱。没有爱，你就不会前进，也不会有正面力量驱使你每天早上起床、工作、玩乐、跳舞、聊天、学习、听音乐或做任何事情——你会像座石雕一样。鼓舞你前进，让你渴望成为、实现或拥有一切的，正是“爱”这股正向积极的力量。爱的正面力量可以创造一切美好事物，增加美好的东西，并改变你生命中的任何负面事物。你拥有掌控健康、财富、职业、人际关系及人生各个层面的力量，而且那股力量——也就是“爱”——就在你之内！
But if you have the power over your life, and that power is inside you, why isn’t your life amazing? Why isn’t every area of your life magnificent? Why don' t you have everything you want? Why haven't you been able to do everything you want to do? Why aren't you filled with joy every day?但是，如果你有力量控制自己的人生，而且那个力量在你之内，为什么你的人生并不精彩？为什么你的人生不是每个领域都有杰出的表现？为什么你并未拥有你想要的每样东西？为什么你一直没办法做你想做的每一件事？为什么你不是每天都满心喜悦？
The answer is: because you have a choice. You have a choice whether to love and harness the positive force—or not. And whether you realize it or not, every day of your life. every moment of your life-you have been making this choice. Without exception, every single time you experienced something good in your life, you loved and harnessed loves positive force. And every single time you experienced something not good, you didn't love, and the result was negativity. Love is the cause of all the good things in your life, and a lack of love is the cause of all the negative things and all the pain and suffering. Tragically, a lack of knowledge and understanding of the power of love is clear in people's lives across the planet today - and in the entire history of humanity.答案是：因为你有选择权。你可以选择去爱，并运用这股正面力量，也可以选择放弃。而不管你是否意识到，你人生中的每一天——你生命中的每个当下——都在做这个选择。每当你在人生中体验到美好事物时，就表示你付出了爱，而且运用了爱的正面力量，毫无例外；而每当你经历不愉悦的事物时，就表示你没有付出爱，其结果就是负面的。爱是你生命中所有美好事物的起因，而缺乏爱就会引起一切负面事物及痛苦。然而悲惨的是，从现今全世界所有人的人生乃至人类整个历史来看，人们对这股力量显然还缺乏认识与体悟。
（《力量》，湖南文艺出版社，2011年6月第一版）
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