《美食祈禱和戀愛》Chapter 62 (139):最安靜的姑娘
So I'm not going to be the Ashram social bunny anymore, I've decided. No more scurrying, gossiping, joking. No more spotlight-hogging or conversation-dominating. No more verbal tap-dancing for pennies of affirmation. It's time to change. Now that Richard is gone, I'm going to make the remainder of my stay a completely quiet experience. This will be difficult, but not impossible, because silence is universally respected at the Ashram. The whole community will support it, recognizing your decision as a disciplined act of devotion. In the bookstore they even sell little badges you can wear which read, "I am in Silence."
我不想再當道場的社交兔寶寶。我已打定主意。不再東忙西忙、說長道短、插科打諢。不再主導談話、搶風頭。不再爲了得到肯定而喋喋不休。該是改變的時候了。既然理查走了，我要讓自己在這段剩下的時間體驗完全的靜默。雖不容易，卻不無可能，因爲靜默受到道場的普遍尊重。整個社羣都予以支持，將你的決定視爲宗教訓練的實踐。他們甚至在書店販賣讓你佩戴的小徽章，其上寫着：“靜默中”。
I'm going to buy four of those little badges.
我要去買四個小徽章。
On the drive back to the Ashram, I really let myself dip into a fantasy about just how silent I am going to become now. I will be so silent that it will make me famous. I imagine myself becoming known as That Quiet Girl. I'll just keep to the Ashram schedule, take my meals in solitude, meditate for endless hours every day and scrub the temple floors without making a peep. My only interaction with others will be to smile beatifically at them from within my selfcontained world of stillness and piety. People will talk about me. They'll ask, "Who is That Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, always scrubbing the floors, down on her knees? She never speaks. She's so elusive. She's so mystical. I can't even imagine what her voice sounds like. You never even hear her coming up behind you on the garden path when she's out walking . . . she moves as silently as the breeze. She must be in a constant state of meditative communion with God. She's the quietest girl I've ever seen."Eat, Pray, Love
搭車回道場的路上，我真的幻想自己變得多麼安靜。我的安靜將讓我走紅。我想象自己被稱爲“那安靜的姑娘”。我只要遵循道場的日程表，獨自吃飯，每天禪坐無數個小時，頭也不擡地洗刷寺院地板。我與他人僅有的互動是從我寂靜、虔誠的內心世界中，所投給他們的美麗微笑。大家會談論我。他們會問“寺院後方那位總是跪着刷地板的安靜姑娘是誰？她從不說話。她是多麼難以捉摸，多麼神祕。我甚至想象不出她的聲音。她去庭園散步的時候，你甚至聽不見她走在你身後……她走動的時候安靜無聲，有如微風。她肯定一直與神進行禪修溝通。她是我見過的最安靜的姑娘。”
