live as if you were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever.
「明日死ぬように生きなさい、永遠に生きるように学びなさい」（マハトマ・ガンジー）
「種は土に奉仕し、土は種に奉仕する。木は土に葉を落とし、土は木の根に滋養を与える。こうして魂は互いに奉仕し、満たされる」
- サティシュ・クマールの母
「一杯の水を与えられれば
山海の珍味をもってこれに報いよ
親しく挨拶されれば
誠心をもって有難くこれを受けよ
一銭のほどこしを受ければ
黄金をもって返せ
一命を救われれば
一命を惜しむなかれ
いかに小さな奉任であれ
十倍にして返せ
まことに心貴き人は
万人を一人と知り
悪に報いるに善をもってなし
これを喜ばん」
－ガンジーが影響を受けたというグジュラートにある教訓歌を多少変更
「人々の中へ行き
人々と共に住み
人々を愛し
人々から学びなさい
人々が知っていることから始め
人々が持っているものの上に築きなさい
しかし、本当にすぐれた指導者が
仕事をしたときには
その仕事が完成したとき
人々はこう言うでしょう
「我々がこれをやったのだ」と」
Go to the people,
Live among them,
Learn from them,
Love them.
Start with what they know,
Build on what they have;
But of the best leaders,
When their task is accomplished,
Their work done,
The people all remark:
WE HAVE DONE IT OURSELVES.
晏陽初 Yen Yang Chu (1893 – 1990) による詩
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
(アルベール・カミュ)
If I had my life to live over,
Id try to make more mistakes next time.
I would relax.
I would limber up.
I would be sillier than I have been on this trip.
I know of very few things I would take seriously.
I would be crazier. I would take more trips.
I would climb more mountains,
swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets.
I would burn more gasoline.
I would eat more ice-cream and less beans.
I would have more ACTUAL troubles and
fewer imaginary ones..
You see, I am one of those people who lives
sensibly and sanely,
hour after hour, day after day,
Oh, I have had my moments..
And if I had it to do over again, I’d have more of them.
In fact, I’d try to have nothing else.
Just moments, one after another,
Instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
I have been one of those people who never go anywhere
without a thermometer, a hot water bottle,
a raincoat, a parachute.
If I had it to do over again, I would go places
and do things,
And travel lighter than I have.
If I had my life to live over,
I would start barefooted earlier in the Spring,
And stay that way later in Fall.
I would ride play hooky more.
I would ride on merry go arounds.
I’d pick more daisies.
- Nadine Stair