2026-09-03

《朝聖之路》(The Way,又譯《漫萬步》)

 《朝聖之路》(The Way,又譯《漫萬步》)


導演:Emilio Estevez(艾美利奧·艾斯提維斯)|2010|主演:Martin Sheen(馬田·辛)


📖 電影內容

湯姆係美國一位生活安穩、性格內斂的眼科醫生,習慣按部就班,凡事講求實際。他嘅兒子丹尼爾嚮往自由,不願意過世俗認可嘅人生,獨自遠赴歐洲,打算徒步八百公里嘅聖雅各朝聖之路(Camino Francés)。未料出發不久,丹尼爾遇上暴風雨,於庇里牛斯山意外離世。


湯姆飛到法國,本只係取回兒子遺體,將他帶回故土。然而站在朝聖之路嘅起點,悲傷與愧疚驅使他做出一個突發嘅決定:揹起兒子嘅背囊,帶住他嘅骨灰,親自走完這一整段路,替兒子完成未竟嘅旅程。


一開始,湯姆只想獨自上路,靜靜哀傷。漫漫路途之中,他卻陸續遇見三位各有心事嘅朝聖者:


• 荷蘭人約斯特,希望藉行路減磅,尋回生活嘅喜悅;


• 加拿大女子莎拉,嘗試擺脫過往創傷、戒掉煙癮;


• 愛爾蘭作家積克,長年陷於寫作瓶頸,尋找失落嘅靈感。


四人結成鬆散嘅同伴。沒有驚天動地嘅奇遇,只有水泡、疲勞、落雨嘅泥路、鄉間簡樸嘅旅舍,以及陌生人之間偶然嘅善意。行路並沒有為任何人帶來神聖嘅奇蹟,卻慢慢剝去每個人身上嘅執念與堅殼。


抵達聖地牙哥大教堂一刻,湯姆並沒有得到想像之中嘅解脫。最後,他沒有就此返家,反而背起背囊,走向海邊另一條未知嘅小路。故事告訴我們:朝聖嘅重點,從來唔係抵達一座終點城市,而係內心嘅路,永遠可以繼續走落去。


✨ 電影啟示與影評

這不是一部宗教電影,而係一齣關於「尋找」嘅公路詩篇。


好多人以為,走上朝聖之路,係為咗求得答案。這套電影溫柔地推翻咗呢個想法:人生沒有一份預先寫好嘅答案書。湯姆一路尋求嘅,原來唔係安慰,而係原諒——原諒逝去嘅兒子,亦原諒從前不懂體諒兒子嘅自己。


劇本刻意避開濫情嘅戲劇效果。真正嘅轉變,唔發生於一次戲劇性嘅頓悟,而藏於無數平凡細節:腳底嘅痛楚令你放下驕傲;與萍水相逢之人共食一餐簡單晚飯,教你重新看見陌生人嘅溫柔;長日獨行嘅寂靜,讓你被迫直視一直逃避嘅心事。


經典臺詞:

“You do not choose a life. You live one.”

「生命,唔係畀你去揀選;而係畀你去活出來。」

電影亦誠實提醒觀眾:徒步唔係靈魂嘅萬靈丹。行完八百公里,舊日嘅煩惱未必會消失。行路最大嘅禮物,唔係問題得到解決,而係你慢慢擁有另一種眼光,去睇同一個世界,同一個自己。


好多人睇完呢套戲,動身去走Camino;亦有好多人,沒有踏足西班牙,卻學識咗:朝聖唔一定要遠走他方。有時,勇於改變睇事嘅角度,就已經係上路。


Elegant English Review


The Way (2010), directed by Emilio Estevez


The Way is not a film about religion. It is a quiet, luminous parable about grief, and about the slow, unglamorous labour of learning to live again.


Tom, an American ophthalmologist, receives the news that his estranged son Daniel has died in a storm on the Camino de Santiago, only days into his pilgrimage. Travelling to France to retrieve the body, Tom makes an impulsive decision: he will shoulder his son's pack, scatter his ashes along the route, and walk the eight hundred kilometres himself.


What follows is neither a grand adventure nor a sentimental fable. The camino offers no miracles. It offers blisters, rain, cheap hostels and the company of strangers — a Dutchman seeking joy, a Canadian woman fleeing pain, an Irish writer paralysed by writer's block. Together they walk, and slowly, almost imperceptibly, each begins to shed the armour worn for years.


The film's wisdom lies in its restraint. Transformation does not arrive through a single dramatic revelation. It accumulates in the ordinary: the discipline of one more step, the kindness of a shared meal, the long silence of a road that forces you to meet yourself. When Tom finally reaches Santiago, there is no neat catharsis — only the recognition that the journey has changed him, and that the road, once begun, need not end where the map says it should.

"You do not choose a life. You live one."

Beautifully photographed and tenderly acted, The Way reminds us that pilgrimage is not about arriving at a holy city. It is about becoming, however slowly, someone slightly more awake to the world — and to oneself.

精選金句 · 三語版


1. 生命,不是用來選擇的,而是用來活的。

You do not choose a life. You live one.

Não se escolhe uma vida. Vive‑se uma vida.

2. 朝聖的重點,從來不在抵達,而在行走之中,慢慢成為另一個自己。

The point of pilgrimage is never the arrival, but the slow becoming that happens along the way.

O sentido da peregrinação nunca está na chegada, mas no lento transformar que acontece pelo caminho.

3. 行路不會消除痛苦,只會教你用另一種目光,看待痛苦。

Walking does not erase pain. It teaches you to see it with different eyes.

Caminhar não apaga a dor. Ensina‑nos a olhá‑la com outros olhos.

4. 有時,最遙遠的旅程,不在腳下,而在內心。

Sometimes the longest journey is not the one beneath your feet, but the one within.

Por vezes, a viagem mais longa não é a que se faz com os pés, mas a que se faz no interior.

5. 陌生人的善意,是朝聖路上最珍貴的聖物。

The kindness of strangers is the most precious relic on the pilgrim's road.

A bondade dos estranhos é a relíquia mais preciosa no caminho do peregrino.



2026-09-02

《因為尋找,所以看見:一個人的朝聖之路》

 Elegant English Book Review


Because We Seek, We See: A Pilgrim's Solitary Path

by Hsieh Che-ching (謝哲青)


This is not a travel book in the ordinary sense. It is, rather, a quiet meditation on walking — on the slow, deliberate act of putting one foot before another across hundreds of kilometres of the Camino de Santiago, and discovering, along the way, that the journey was never really about arriving.


The author sets out alone, carrying little more than a pack and a lifetime of unexamined questions. Through ancient villages, windswept plains and silent forests, he confronts fatigue, solitude and the accumulated weight of memory. What he seeks is not a revelation waiting at the end of the road, but the gradual, almost imperceptible opening of his own eyes. The book's central truth is elegantly simple: we do not see first and then seek; we seek, and only then do we begin to see.


Interwoven with history, geography and the fleeting company of fellow pilgrims, the prose remains gentle and unhurried. There are no grand slogans, no manufactured epiphanies — only the honest record of a man learning, step by step, to make peace with his own incompleteness. The road does not erase sorrow. It teaches us to look at sorrow differently.


For anyone who has ever felt lost, this book offers no map and no guarantee. It offers something rarer: the conviction that the act of searching is itself a kind of arrival, and that the most important landscapes we ever encounter are the ones within.



《因為尋找,所以看見:一個人的朝聖之路》


作者:謝哲青


📖 書籍梗概

本書記錄作者獨自徒步西班牙聖雅各朝聖之路的真實旅程。這趟數百公里的長途漫行,並非單純風景遊記:沿途有身體的疲勞、孤獨的時刻、與陌生人短暫相逢又離別的際遇,亦有大量對生命的回望。

一路上,他走過古舊村莊、荒原與山林,一邊觀察土地、歷史與路人,一邊向內省視自己:曾經的遺憾、執念、對未來的迷惘。他原本以為,朝聖是為了求得某個確定的答案;走完全程才慢慢明白,並沒有預設的神啟與奇蹟。所謂尋找,不是去到遠方尋獲一件失落之物,而是漫長行走之間,慢慢打開心靈,從前看不見的自己、看不穿的往事,才得以浮現眼前。

書中交織人文史地知識、旅途見聞與私人感悟,文字溫和誠懇,沒有炫目的勵志口號,只寫一個普通人藉由長路,學習與過往和解、接納生命之不完美的過程。


✨ 核心啟示


1. 尋找的意義,不在找到,而在打開觀看的眼睛

多數人踏上追尋之路,都預設世上存在一個標準答案。本書提醒:很多時候,答案本來不存在;是因為你願意上路、願意細細體驗,新的視角、新的領悟才得以誕生。不是看見才去尋找,而是因為尋找,終得看見。


2. 孤獨並非懲罰,而是認識自我必要的場域

日常裡我們被工作、人際、種種聲音包圍,甚少靜下來面對內心。長途獨行迫使一個人面對疲憊、恐懼、無聊與自我懷疑;恰恰在這些無可逃避的時刻,平日被忙亂遮蔽的真實感受,才會顯露出來。


3. 朝聖沒有一勞永逸的救贖

一趟路走畢,人生難題不會自動消失。旅途不會消除痛苦,只會讓人換一種方式看待痛苦。真正的療癒,不是得到圓滿結局,而是學會容納生命裡那些沒有解答的遺憾。


4. 相遇皆是暫時,唯有體驗長存

路上結識的旅人多數只能相伴一程。人事大抵如是:我們無法留住所有人,卻可以選擇認真看待每一次相逢與別離,珍惜當下片刻的溫柔。


⚠️ 閱讀備註

此書屬散文遊記,非嚴肅哲學著作。書中感悟皆來自作者個人經歷,沒有放諸四海皆準的人生處方。它適合願意慢讀、願意思考自我狀態的讀者;若期待一書讀完即可獲得明確人生方案,或許會覺得內容過於柔和。


💡 總結

這本書傳達最深刻的信念:生命的風景,從來不只存在於遠方的土地。上路最重要的收穫,不是抵達終點,而是行進途中,我們慢慢學會怎樣注視這個世界,以及怎樣注視自己。


因為尋找,所以看見|讀後


踏上聖雅各之路,謝哲青原以為,遙遠的彼方藏著他要尋覓的答案。數百公里漫長的徒步,沒有奇蹟降臨,沒有預設的啟示,只有風霜、疲憊,與一程又一程無可躲避的孤獨。


我們常常誤以為,要先看見方向,才敢啟身尋找。這本書卻道破另一種真義:不是看見才去尋找,而是因為尋找,我們才終得看見。


遠行的意義,從不在抵達終點。行旅之中,歷史與風景徐徐展卷,萍水相逢的旅人相伴一段路途又各自遠去。更寶貴的,是行路時得以卸下俗世紛擾,靜下心凝視從前刻意迴避的自己:那些遺憾、執念、未曾安放的迷惘。


道路不會抹去生命的傷痛,歲月亦無法消弭所有遺憾。它只是慢慢教會人換一種目光,與不完美的過往握手言和。很多答案本就不存在於遠方,而是在尋覓的途中,隨著眼界與心境的開闊,悄然生長。


人生大抵亦是一場沒有明確終點的朝聖。不必執著一定要尋獲什麼,只要仍願意往前走、用心凝望,沿途所遇的風光、省思與溫柔,便是此行最好的饋贈。


📜《因為尋找,所以看見》|精選金句版


1. 不是看見才去尋找,而是因為尋找,我們才終得看見。


2. 朝聖從來不在於抵達,而在行走之間,慢慢打開一雙願意注視的心眼。


3. 道路不會抹去生命的傷痛,只會教我們學會用另一種目光,看待遺憾。


4. 許多答案本不在遠方,而是在行旅途中,隨心境開闊,悄然生長。


5. 相逢多是一程,唯有真實的體悟,能夠長久留在靈魂深處。


6. 人生是一場沒有確定終點的漫旅,尋找本身,即是一種抵達。


7. 最值得抵達的風景,從來不是遠方的土地,而是內心從未看見的自己。


English


1. We do not seek because we see; we see because we choose to seek.


2. A pilgrimage is never merely about arrival. It is about opening the eyes of the heart as we walk.


3. The road does not erase life‑long sorrows, yet it teaches us to view regrets with different eyes.


4. Many answers lie not in far‑off lands, but grow quietly within us as our hearts widen along the journey.


5. Most encounters last but a moment. Only genuine insights abide deep within the soul.


6. Life is a long voyage with no fixed destination. To seek is in itself a kind of arrival.


7. The most precious scenery to reach is not some distant land, but the self we had never seen before.


Português Europeu


1. Não procuramos porque vemos; vemos porque decidimos procurar.


2. Uma peregrinação nunca é apenas sobre chegar. Trata‑se de abrir os olhos do coração enquanto caminhamos.


3. O caminho não apaga as mágoas da vida, mas ensina‑nos a olhar para os arrependimentos com outros olhos.


4. Muitas respostas não se encontram em terras distantes; crescem silenciosamente em nós à medida que o nosso coração se alarga com a viagem.


5. A maioria dos encontros dura apenas um momento. Apenas as percepções verdadeiras permanecem no fundo da alma.


6. A vida é uma longa viagem sem destino certo. Procurar já é, por si só, uma forma de chegar.


7. A paisagem mais preciosa a alcançar não é uma terra distante, mas o eu que nunca tínhamos visto.

陳啟宗- 家族傳承與永續企業



好多家族企業有一個誤解:傳承,就等於將資產、股權交俾下一代。其實唔係。真正嘅傳承,係價值觀嘅傳承。錢可以一夜之間輸光,但是一套經過時間考驗嘅做事原則,如果留得落,家族先有機會跨過幾代人。


華人世界有句老說話:「富不過三代」。點解?第一,創業嘅一代,親自嘗過艱難,知錢難賺;第二代,或者見過上一輩嘅辛苦;去到第三代,多數只見到成果,唔見得創業嘅代價。財富變成一種理所當然嘅權利,而唔係一份需要小心看管嘅信託。


好多家長犯嘅錯,就係以為最好嘅禮物,就係將盡量多嘅現金同物業留俾仔女。我嘅睇法剛剛相反。物質留得太多,往往剝奪咗下一代建立自我尊嚴嘅機會。一個人嘅價值,如果只係建立於繼承返來嘅資產上面,一旦資產出現波動,個人嘅自我認同就會一齊塌落。


咁,家族可以傳啲乜?

第一,一套不可動搖嘅行事標準。以恒隆為例,我哋嘅座右銘就係「只選好嘅,只做對嘅」。做對嘅事,有時短期會令利潤受損,但長遠會保護間企業嘅聲譽同生存空間。生意可以轉行,資產可以貶值,聲譽一旦失去,好難買得返。

第二,容許下一代有權利唔接手家族生意。強迫後人接棒,好多時只會製造平庸嘅管理者。永續唔等於一定要同一個行業世世代代做落去;永續,係家族每一代都有能力,憑住自己嘅品格同判斷力,重新去創造屬於自己嘅價值。我退休之後,刻意同恒隆保持距離。如果我幾十年培養出來嘅接班人仍然需要我喺後面撐住,咁即係我嘅傳承已經失敗。


講到永續企業。永續唔係永遠做大,唔係年年業績創新高。真正嘅永續,係企業有能力渡過多個經濟週期。好多老闆將增長同生存混為一談。瘋狂擴張嘅年代,人人都好似贏家;週期一轉,債務就會變成絆腳索。一間長久嘅公司,必須有一種「畏懼繁榮」嘅文化。景氣最好嘅時候,反而最要審慎,唔好假定繁榮係永恆。


家族企業仲要面對一個難題:家族利益同企業利益,幾時會出現衝突。如果企業只係視為家族嘅私人錢箱,用公司資產去滿足家族成員嘅種種願望,企業嘅體質一定會慢慢虛弱。想要永續,就要建立制度:企業屬於持份者,唔係屬於每一位家族成員嘅自動福利。家族成員想喺公司任職,要有同外人一樣嘅標準:憑資歷、能力同貢獻,唔係憑血緣。


最後一點。成功嘅傳承,最終要學會放手。放手唔等於放棄關心,而係放棄控制。你可以將經驗同價值觀分享俾後人,但唔可以為佢哋寫好人生嘅劇本。每一代人,都要獲得犯自己嘅錯、建立自己嘅判斷嘅自由。一個家族,如果淨係識得守舊有嘅財富,最後一定會隨住時代變遷而衰落;只有願意容許價值觀延續,而容許做法不斷演變,先有機會走得遠。

綜合分析


一、演講核心論點之架構


陳啟宗將主題分開兩個互有連繫嘅部份:家族傳承、企業永續。


1. 傳承之重,不在資產,而在信條

佢嘅中心命題,係物質財富係脆弱嘅;能夠穿越世代嘅,只係一套道德與經營哲學。此處佢同大多數華人企業家嘅主流心態作出對比:多數人思考傳承,優先考慮股權分配、遺產安排;陳啟宗認為,呢啲只係技術層面嘅細節。如果價值觀腐壞,無論幾完善嘅資產分拆方案,都只可以延遲衰敗,唔可以避免衰敗。


2. 永續,不等於永遠經營同一盤生意

呢個係頗具顛覆性嘅觀點。一般人理解嘅家族事業永續,即係祖傳嘅行業一直做落去。陳啟宗嘅定義完全唔一樣:永續嘅測試標準,唔係行業有冇保留下來,而係家族有冇持續產生有品格、有獨立生存能力嘅後人。就算後代選擇唔做地產,只要家族嘅核心價值仍然生效,就唔算傳承失敗。


3. 長壽企業需要對繁榮存戒心

從恒隆嘅實戰經驗出發(九七年前唔搶地、繁榮時期控制槓桿),佢提出一個週期哲學:企業最大嘅危險,通常唔係大蕭條,而係長時期嘅繁榮。繁榮會令管理人員產生幻覺,以為自己嘅成功來自個人超卓才華,而非時勢;風險管理嘅標準慢慢放寬,債務同野心不斷膨脹,等到週期逆轉,危機就爆發。


4. 血緣唔可以自動換取管理特權

佢主張將家族同企業作適當切割。企業係一套制度,要對所有股東負責;家族係血緣團體。將兩者混淆,以血緣作為任用之首要準則,就會慢慢建立一套逆淘汰機制:能幹嘅外人離開,無能嘅親戚留低。家族企業想要活得耐,就要有勇氣實施「血緣中立」嘅用人準則。


二、論述當中隱藏嘅個人實踐(恒隆案例)


• 陳啟宗於幾年前正式退休,讓兒子陳文博接掌,並且刻意減少介入董事會運作。佢嘅理念係:如果接班人永遠需要創辦一代嘅權威去撐住,咁傳承就未曾真正完成。放手,係測試傳承成功與否嘅最後一關。


• 恒隆幾十年堅持嘅持有型高質物業模式,就係「寧願犧牲短期利潤,不願意犧牲長遠生存空間」嘅實例。佢多次公開講,恒隆唔追求做賺最多錢嘅地產商,但追求做一間有原則、長存嘅企業。


三、該套思想面對嘅局限與質疑


1. 價值觀難以複製

陳啟宗假設一套好嘅信條可以跨世代傳遞。現實當中,一套信念能否落實,非常依靠每一代掌權者嘅人格。就算寫低落家族憲章,如果掌權人唔認同,紙上嘅規條毫無約束力。精神傳承,係最難設計契約去保障嘅一項東西。


2. 「放手」嘅代價難以估量

鼓勵後代自由選擇唔接手生意,長遠睇或者有利家族人格嘅健康;短期睇,有一個風險:幾代之後,再冇人願意或者有能力營運原來嘅企業。對好多創業家而言,呢個結果係唔願意接受嘅。


3. 週期謹慎策略唔係永遠有效

恒隆嘅保守路線喺過去幾次危機證明係明智。但商業史入面,亦有大量案例:過份審慎嘅家族,遇到產業巨大革新嘅時候,因為長期迴避風險,錯失轉型機會,慢慢被時代淘汰。審慎係美德,但過度審慎亦可成為僵化嘅來源。


四、結論


呢場演講嘅真正貢獻,唔係提供一套可以照抄嘅傳承操作手冊,而係提出一連串嘅根本問題:

我哋經營家族企業,最終想保存嘅,究竟係一堆資產?一個行業?定係一種做人做事嘅方式?

多數華人創辦人,不自覺將財富嘅延續當作最終目標。陳啟宗嘅立場,將手段同目的倒轉:財富只係工具;能夠跨越歲月嘅人格同價值,先係傳承嘅真正成果。


陳啟宗〈家族傳承與永續企業〉演講|重點備忘


一、關於家族傳承(核心十問十要點)


1. 問:傳承是否等於把資產交給下一代?

答:不是。股權、物業、現金只係財產之移交;真正之傳承,乃價值觀、判斷框架、行事底線之延續。財富可以數年間化為烏有,一套經歷週期考驗之處世原則,方有機會庇蔭後世。


2. 問:為什麼華人社會常見「富不過三代」?

答:創業者親歷艱辛,知資產得來不易;第二代或曾目睹困苦;第三代多只見成果,視富裕為天經地義之權利,而非一份需要謹慎託管之信託。缺少危機意識與責任意識,財富便容易揮霍或於冒進決策中流失。


3. 問:留愈多錢給子女,是否就是最好安排?

答:往往適得其反。過量之繼承財富,有時會剝奪後人建立自我價值之機會。若一個人之自尊完全依附於繼承得來之資產,一旦資產受市場波動,其人之自我認同亦隨之動搖。


4. 問:家族應該重點傳遞什麼?

答:兩樣最寶貴之物:


◦ 一套穩定之倫理與經營標準:做正確之事,而非只做短期賺錢之事;聲譽一旦失去,金錢難以贖回。


◦ 容許選擇之自由:下一代沒有道德義務必須接手家族生意。


5. 問:強迫後人接棒,會有什麼長遠代價?

答:多數只會產生平庸之管理者。永續不是固守同一盤生意;永續是每一代人皆有能力,憑品格與獨立判斷,自行創造屬於自己之價值。


6. 問:何謂真正之「放手」?

答:放手不是不再關心,而是放棄控制。長輩可以贈予經驗與價值觀,不可以替後人寫下人生劇本。每一代人都要有犯自己錯誤、建立自己判斷之空間。


7. 問:如何分辨「保護後代」與「寵壞後代」?

答:保護,係給予教育、視野、價值觀;寵壞,係消除一切磨練,用金錢替他們解決所有自己應該面對之抉擇與挫敗。


8. 問:家族憲章、遺產安排是否足夠保障傳承?

答:只屬技術工具。文件寫得再周密,若掌權者不認同背後之價值,一切規條皆難落實。精神之傳承,無法單靠法律合約作保證。


9. 問:家族成員之間最重要之共識是什麼?

答:財富是信託,不是私人獻禮。擁有並不等同可以任意消耗;享用之同時,亦負有保存、善用之責。


10. 問:傳承成功之判斷指標為何?

答:不是幾多年資產仍然存在;而是數代之後,族人即使不靠原有資產,仍然有本事、有德行站得住腳。


二、關於永續企業(核心十問十要點)


1. 問:永續是否等於不斷擴張、每年業績創新高?

答:不是。永續首要條件是活過多個經濟週期。一味追求增長,容易令人忽略負債與週期逆轉之風險。


2. 問:企業最大之危機通常出現於何時?

答:多在繁榮時期。景氣熾熱,成功容易被歸功於個人才能,淡化時勢因素;風險標準日漸放寬,槓桿與野心持續膨脹,一旦大勢逆轉,災難隨至。經營者要有畏懼繁榮之心。


3. 問:家族企業最常犯之制度毛病是什麼?

答:混淆家族與企業之界線,把公司視為家族錢箱,以企業資源滿足親友之需要。長遠會令企業體質虛弱,損害全體股東權益。


4. 問:家族成員入職企業,應以什麼作標準?

答:血緣不應自動帶來特權。任用條件要與外人一致:視乎能力、資歷、貢獻,而非出身。做不到這一點,公司會慢慢出現逆淘汰,優秀外人離去,平庸親戚留任。


5. 問:保守經營策略,有什麼潛在風險?

答:過份畏懼風險,亦可能錯失產業轉型良機。審慎是美德,僵化則不是。保守之目的是爭取長久生存,不是拒絕一切新嘗試。


6. 問:一間長壽公司,最重要之資產是什麼?

答:不是地皮、大廈、現金,而是聲譽、制度、以及一整套歷經考驗之決策文化。物質資產可一夜蒸發,文化難以建立,毀壞之後極難重建。


7. 問:何謂好之決策習慣?

答:做決定先問一事:十年之後回望,今日這個選擇,會否仍然算得上明智?短期盈利只係眾多考慮因素之一,非唯一準則。


8. 問:如何判斷一個企業家是不是真的在思考永續?

答:看他願不願意為長遠生存,放棄部分唾手可得之短期利潤。人人繁榮時都可以賺錢;真正考驗,是熱潮之中,仍有勇氣克制。


9. 問:企業傳承,創辦人最難做到那一關?

答:真心接受自己不再是不可缺少之人。若接班人永遠需要創辦一代在幕後撐持,即代表傳承尚未成功。


10. 問:永續企業最終追求什麼?

答:不是永遠賺最多錢,而是盡量長久地,做有原則、值得人敬重之機構。


三、值得反思之四個根本命題(演講結語之精神)


1. 我建立財富,究竟為了什麼?


2. 我留給後人,最寶貴之物,會是什麼?


3. 當下一代不喜歡、不擅長、不願意繼承原有事業,我能否坦然接受?


4. 所謂成功,是資產表上之數字,還是人格與行事方式之延續?

The Help(《相助》)

 The Help(《相助》)

作者:Kathryn Stockett,2009年出版


The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is far more than a story set amid America’s segregated South of the early 1960s. It is a tender, unflinching meditation on silence, dignity and the quiet courage to speak.


In Jackson, Mississippi, black domestic servants spend their lives caring for white‑family children, yet are denied basic respect, fair treatment and equal standing in the eyes of society. Skeeter, a young white woman returning home from college, grows troubled by the cruelties accepted as normal all around her. She conceives a risky project: to write a book giving anonymous black maids a place to tell their own stories.


One by one, Aibileen, Minny and other women share tales of weariness, kindness, hurt and self‑respect they have never dared to voice. The finished manuscript shakes their closed‑minded town. No grand revolution arrives at once. Still, something vital shifts: invisible human lives have been seen.


Stockett does not offer easy victories. She reminds us injustice often lives inside ordinary customs, unexamined habits and comfortable silence. True alliance is not patronising pity. It is the choice to listen, to honour another person’s humanity, even when doing so carries cost. Warm, heartfelt and wise, The Help teaches that history is written not only by famous leaders, but by every quiet soul brave enough to give truth a voice.


Selected Classic Quotations


1. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”

(角色原生口語;標準英文:You are kind. You are smart. You are important.)


你善良,你聰明,你很寶貴。


2. “Courage isn’t not being scared. It’s being scared and doing it anyway.”

勇氣唔係毫無畏懼,而係心中害怕,仍然選擇前行


3. “Truth is a funny thing. Once it leaves your mouth, it don’t go back in.”

真相有一種奇妙嘅力量:一旦說出口,便再也無法收回。


Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert


More than a tale of misplaced passion, Madame Bovary stands as one of literature’s most piercing meditations on the chasm between reverie and reality. Emma Bovary, nourished from girlhood on the gilded fables of romantic fiction, longs for a life stitched with grand feeling, noble gestures and exquisite beauty. Wed to the gentle but unremarkable country doctor Charles, she finds her days draped in the quiet monotony of provincial existence. Unable to reconcile the luminous dreams she carries within with plain‑spoken life, she chases illusion through clandestine love‑affairs and reckless spending, slipping slowly into ruin.


Flaubert wrote not to condemn his heroine, but to understand her. His famous confession‑Madame Bovary, c’est moi‑reminds us that Emma’s longing is buried in every human breast: the quiet hope that our ordinary lives might somehow be extraordinary. Writing with painstaking, lapidary craft, he declined to play moralist, offering no easy verdict, no comforting fable of sin and redemption. With cool, luminous prose he unspools a tragedy born not merely of error, but of the universal frailty to mistake fantasy for happiness.


This is a novel for grown‑up readers. It asks us to consider what happens when we search for meaning always “elsewhere”, in finer people, finer moments, finer things, rather than learning to dwell within the imperfect present. Unflinching, subtle and exquisitely wrought, Madame Bovary does not console. It sees. And in that clear‑sighted seeing lies its undying grandeur.


Selected Classic Quotations (from standard English translations)


1. “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.”

“Madame Bovary is myself.”

2. “Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

人類的語言,好比一隻破爛的銅釜,我們敲打它,想叫狗熊隨之起舞,心裡卻渴望奏出能感動星辰的樂曲。

3. “It seemed to her that certain places on earth must bring happiness, as a plant peculiar to the soil, that cannot thrive elsewhere.”

在她看來,世上總有某些地方註定盛產幸福,如同一種只能生長於特定土壤的花草,易地便無法繁茂。

4. “Before she was married she thought she possessed love; yet the felicity that should have come of that love never arrived.”

結婚前,她自以為擁有了愛情;而那份愛情本該帶來的幸福,卻始終沒有降臨。

5. “To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”

“愚鈍、自私,再加上一副好身體,乃是獲得幸福的三樣條件;少了愚鈍,其餘兩樣便毫無用處。”


Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again

 《再別康橋》


作者:徐志摩(1928)

輕輕的我走了,

正如我輕輕的來;

我輕輕的招手,

作別西天的雲彩。


那河畔的金柳,

是夕陽中的新娘;

波光裡的艷影,

在我的心頭蕩漾。


軟泥上的青荇,

油油的在水底招搖;

在康河的柔波裡,

我甘心做一條水草!


那榆蔭下的一潭,

不是清泉,是天上虹;

揉碎在浮藻間,

沉澱著彩虹似的夢。


尋夢?撐一支長篙,

向青草更青處漫溯;

滿載一船星輝,

在星輝斑斕裡放歌。


但我不能放歌,

悄悄是別離的笙簫;

夏蟲也為我沉默,

沉默是今晚的康橋!


悄悄的我走了,

正如我悄悄的來;

我揮一揮衣袖,

不帶走一片雲彩。


Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again


By Xu Zhimo

Softly I take my leave,

Just as softly I came;

I wave my hand gently,

Bidding farewell to the clouds of the western sky.


The golden willows by the river‑bank

Are brides bathed in the setting sun;

Their shimmering image in the ripples

Sways softly within my heart.


The water‑plants upon the soft mud

Drift gracefully beneath the stream;

In the gentle waves of the River Cam,

I would gladly be a single weed.


That pool beneath the elm‑tree shade

Is not clear spring, but a rainbow from the sky;

Broken among the floating algae,

A rainbow‑like dream lies deep inside.


To seek a dream? Take a long punt‑pole,

And drift upstream where the grass grows greener still;

My boat heavy with starlight,

I would sing beneath the glittering thrill.


Yet song is not for me tonight,

Silence is the flute of parting hours;

Even summer‑insects hold their peace for me,

Silence is Cambridge’s soul this night.


Quietly I take my leave,

Just as quietly I came;

I give my sleeve a gentle shake,

And carry not one wisp of cloud away.



Adeus a Cambridge, Mais Uma Vez


de Xu Zhimo

Suavemente me vou,

tal como suavemente cheguei;

aceno‑te com a mão,

despedindo‑me das nuvens do poente.


Os salgueiros dourados à beira‑rio

são noivas banhadas pelo sol que desce;

a sua imagem brilhante nas águas

ondula docemente no meu peito.


As plantas aquáticas sobre a lama macia

balançam‑se livres no fundo do rio;

nas ondas calmas do Rio Cam,

eu aceitaria ser apenas uma erva.


Aquele tanque à sombra do olmo

não é água pura, mas um arco‑íris do céu;

desfeito entre as algas flutuantes,

repousa um sonho cor‑de‑arco‑íris.


Procurar um sonho? Ergo um longo pau,

e remo rio acima, onde a erva é mais verde;

o meu barco carregado de luz das estrelas,

cantaria sob o seu brilho ardente.


Mas não posso cantar esta noite,

o silêncio é a flauta da despedida;

até os insetos de verão calam‑se por mim,

o silêncio é a alma de Cambridge hoje.


Calma e quietamente me vou,

tal como quietamente cheguei;

dando à manga um leve abanar,

não levo comigo nem um fio de nuvem.


《明知夕陽留不住》Knowing the Sunset Cannot Stay

《明知夕陽留不住》

—— 佚名(當代網絡詩作)

明知夕陽留不住,卻將心事訴黃昏。

若能重回初見時,只看黃昏不看人。

晚風難解眉間意,殘霞空照異鄉身。

從此天涯皆過客,相逢莫問舊時因。


Knowing the Sunset Cannot Stay

— Anonymous (contemporary Chinese internet poem)

I know the sunset cannot linger,

yet I pour my heart out to the fading dusk.

Could I return to the hour we first met,

I would gaze only at twilight, not at you.


The evening wind cannot read the sorrow in my brows,

the afterglow shines in vain on this far-strayed soul.

Henceforth all souls I meet are passing travellers;

when our paths cross, ask no more of old causes.



Saber que o Pôr do Sol Não Fica

— Anónimo (poema chinês contemporâneo da internet)

Sei que o sol poente não se pode reter,

ainda assim confio os meus segredos ao crepúsculo.

Se pudesse voltar ao momento do primeiro encontro,

olharia apenas o entardecer, e não a ti.


A brisa da noite não compreende a angústia das minhas sobrancelhas,

o resplendor do ocaso ilumina em vão este corpo de estrangeiro.

De agora em diante, todos no mundo são transeuntes;

se nos encontrarmos, não perguntes mais pelas razões do passado.


2026-09-01

When Breath Becomes Air

 When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi (published 2016, posthumously)


Memorable quotes from the book

1. “You can never reach the promised land. You can only march toward it.”

2. “Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I’m still living.”

3. “Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most vital dimensions of human life.”

4. “Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”

5. “The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”


📖 Story

Paul Kalanithi was a brilliant Stanford neurosurgeon‑in‑training. At 36 years old, just months before finishing his gruelling residency, he was diagnosed with stage‑four metastatic lung cancer.

Overnight, the man who spent years saving lives became a terminal patient.

The memoir traces his journey:

‑ as a young scholar, reading great literature, asking: What makes a human life worth living?

‑ as a surgeon, working on the human brain, where personality, memory and identity reside

‑ as a sick man, watching his career, his carefully‑planned future vanish

‑ his choice to have a baby daughter with his wife Lucy, and to write this book while fading in health

Paul died aged 37, before finishing the manuscript. His wife wrote the final epilogue.


✨ Core insights


1. Science cannot give meaning. Medicine can repair bodies, run scans and treat disease, but it has no tools to answer: Why go on living? Meaning is something each person chooses, not something you find in test results or success.


2. Your identity is fragile. A single diagnosis can shatter the life‑story you spent decades building. You may have to build a new self, with far fewer days left.


3. To live fully does not require a long future. When tomorrow is no longer guaranteed, value shifts away from career milestones to love, presence and small, real commitments.

 “Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I’m still living.”

4. Death is not life’s enemy. It is its frame. The knowledge that life ends is what makes our choices matter at all.


👍👎 Is it worth reading?

✅ Strengths:

‑ Calm, thoughtful, beautifully‑written prose; no cheap melodrama

‑ Rare double perspective: seeing illness from both doctor’s and patient’s eyes

‑ Short (around 200 pages), but leaves a lasting impression on how you think about time

‑ Honest: he writes of fear, anger and weariness, not only noble courage


⚠️ Weaknesses:

‑ The book is unfinished; some threads are left open

‑ It is quiet and introspective, not plot‑driven; if you want fast‑paced narrative, this may feel slow


Final thought: It is not really a cancer story. It is a book about how to live, with the constant, quiet fact that every life has an expiry date.

Bread alternatives (lower‑glycaemic, fewer additives)

 🥖 Bread alternatives (lower‑glycaemic, fewer additives)

‑ Steamed sweet potato, taro or Chinese yam: natural starch with fibre, no added sugar or oil

‑ Unsweetened whole‑grain crackers or rye crispbread (check labels; avoid high‑fructose syrup and large amounts of vegetable oil)

‑ Rolled or steel‑cut oats (avoid sweetened instant‑oat sachets)

‑ Quinoa, millet and brown rice: cooked as grains for main‑meal carbohydrates

‑ Plain sourdough bread (ingredients ideally only flour, water, salt and natural starter): a better choice if you still want bread


🥛 Milk alternatives (for calcium and protein)

‑ Unsweetened soya milk: good plant‑based protein; choose calcium‑fortified versions when possible

‑ Unsweetened almond, hazelnut or coconut drink (note: many commercial brands contain water and sugar; pick unsweetened)

‑ Greek‑style yoghurt; goat‑milk yoghurt is often easier for people to tolerate than cow’s‑milk products

‑ Other calcium‑rich foods: dried small fish, kale, Chinese broccoli, sesame seeds, set tofu (calcium‑set)


📋 Practical tips


1. There is no need to cut them out all at once. You could try a 30‑day break from bread and cow’s milk, then notice changes in energy, nasal congestion, bloating or skin condition. If you feel no difference, there is no medical reason to avoid them.


2. If you keep eating them, try to avoid very soft sweet breads, cream‑filled buns and packaged loaves with many preservatives, and do not drink large quantities of fresh cow’s milk every day.


⚠️ Disclaimer: this is dietary information for reference only, not medical advice. If you have osteoporosis or kidney‑related illness, consult a doctor or dietitian before making major changes to your eating plan.

Poemas


1. A Casa de Hóspedes – Rumi


Ser humano é ser uma casa de hóspedes.

Cada manhã chega uma nova visita.


Uma alegria, uma depressão, uma maldade,

alguma consciência momentânea,

chega como um visitante inesperado.


Recebe‑os e acolhe‑os a todos!

Mesmo que sejam uma multidão de sofrimentos

que varrem violentamente da casa todos os móveis,

trata cada hóspede com honra.

Ele talvez esteja a limpar‑te

para uma nova alegria.


O pensamento sombrio, a vergonha, a malícia,

recebe‑os à porta a rir e convida‑os a entrar.


Sê grato por quem quer que venha,

pois cada um foi enviado

como um guia do além.


2. O Caminho Não Seguido – Robert Frost


Dois caminhos se separavam numa floresta amarela,

e, lamentando não poder seguir os dois,

sendo apenas um viajante, fiquei muito tempo ali,

olhando um deles o mais longe que conseguia,

até à curva onde se perdia no mato;


depois tomei o outro, igualmente belo,

e talvez com maior direito a ser escolhido,

porque estava coberto de erva e parecia menos pisado;

embora, se é verdade, quem por lá passara

os tivesse desgastado quase da mesma maneira,


e ambos, naquela manhã, estavam igualmente cobertos

por folhas que nenhum pé havia escurecido.

Oh, guardei o primeiro para outro dia!

Mas sabendo que um caminho leva a outro caminho,

duvidei que alguma vez voltasse.


Contarei isto, com um suspiro,

daqui a muitos e muitos anos:

dois caminhos se separavam numa floresta, e eu —

tomei o menos percorrido,

e isso fez toda a diferença.


3. Na Torre da Cegonha – Wang Zhihuan


O sol desce atrás das montanhas,

o Rio Amarelo corre para o mar.

Se quiseres ver mil léguas de paisagem,

sobe mais um andar.


4. Quando fores Velha – W. B. Yeats 


Quando fores velha, grisalha e cheia de sono,

e, cochilando junto à lareira, pegares neste livro,

e leres devagar, e sonhares com o olhar suave

que os teus olhos tiveram outrora, e com as suas sombras profundas;


quantos amaram os teus momentos de graça alegre,

e amaram a tua beleza, com amor falso ou verdadeiro,

mas um só homem amou a tua alma de peregrino,

e amou a tristeza do teu rosto que se transformava;


e, inclinada junto às barras incandescentes,

murmurares, um pouco triste, como o Amor fugiu,

e caminhou sobre as montanhas lá em cima,

e escondeu a face no meio de uma multidão de estrelas.


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