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驚嘆——一種強大到讓你不得不幾乎重置你的世界觀（心智模型）才能接受它的感知經歷
I think a lot about the contrast between banality and wonder, between disengagement and radiant ecstasy, between being unaffected by the here and now and being absolutely ravished emotionally by it.
我大量思考了關于對比平淡乏味和驚嘆，對比安閑自在和洋溢著狂喜以及對現世的無感或是完全被現狀所陶醉。
And I think one of the problems for human beings is mental habits.
我還考慮到人們心靈上的一個問題一個心理習慣。
Once we create a comfort zone, we rarely step outside of that comfort zone.
一旦我們在心里制造了一個舒適區我們就幾乎不再踏出這片區域。
But the consequence of that is a phenomenon known as hedonic adaptation.
但后果就是引發一種名叫享樂性適應的現象
Over stimulation to the same kind of thing, the same stimuli again and again and again, renders said stimuli invisible.
過度地被同一種事物所刺激相同的感受一遍又一遍地使得人們誤認為自己失去感興趣了
Your brain has already mapped it in its own head, and you no longer literally have to be engaged by that.
你的大腦已經把它刻畫到腦海潛意識深處，你也就幾乎再也不會接觸到它。
We have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
我們有眼睛，但看不透，有雙耳卻聽不見，而心臟更是不能感知亦或是理解。
There's a great book called The Wondering Brain that says that one of the ways that we elicit wonder is by scrambling the self temporarily so that the world can seep in.
有本好書叫The Wondering Brain（思考中的大腦by凱利·巴克利,Kelly Bulkeley）寫道其中一種觸發驚嘆的方法，就是暫時擾亂你自己，以至于讓世界的新鮮事物能夠稍稍滲透進來。
Henry Miller says even a blade of grass, when given proper attention, becomes an infinitely magnificent world in itself.
亨利·米勒說即使是一根小草，當處于適宜的條件下，便能夠自己成長為壯麗無限的世界
Darwin said attention, if sudden and close, graduates in surprise, and this into astonishment, and this into stupefied amazement.
達爾文說：“請留心！如果我們靠得更近，思考得更深，便會萌發驚喜，亦或是驚愕，亦或是木然的驚奇。”
That's what rapture is.
那就是癡迷。
That's what illumination is.
那就正是精神啟示。
That's what that sort of infinite comprehending awe that human beings love so much. And so how do we do that?
那就是人們所喜歡的，對于驚嘆的無限領悟，可是怎么才能做到呢？
How do we mess with our perceptual apparatus in order to have the kind of emotional and aesthetic experience from life that we render most meaningful?
我們應該如何擾亂自己的感官功能，以便于去感知那些美妙的經歷來自于我們所謂的有意義的生活。
Because we all know those moments are there.
我們都知道那些驚嘆的瞬間就在那里。
Those are the moments that would make final cut.
那些瞬間就是我們最終剪輯。
Only in these moments we experience a fresh, the hardly bearable ecstasy of different energy exploding on our nerve endings.
也就只有在這些瞬間里我們才能經歷新鮮感，致使那洋溢著無法抑制的不同能量迸發在我們神經末梢上。
This is the rhapsodic, ecstatic, bursting forth of awe that expands our perceptual parameters beyond all previous limits.
那令人狂熱令人出神的爆發性驚嘆促使我們的感官變量超出了原來的局限
And we literally have to reconfigure our mental models of the world in order to assimilate the beauty of that download.
我們幾乎必須重置我們的世界觀（心智模型），以便于去接收那美妙事物的下載
That is what it means to be inspired.
那才是被啟發的意義所在。
The Greek root of the term means to breathe in, to take it in.
古希臘語中的“root（根源）”意為吸入，去取進來
We fit the universe through our brains, and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry.
我們把整個宇宙裝進了大腦里，卻最多只能寫出詩歌而已。
We have a responsibility to awe.
我們要對驚嘆負責！
