●1.我永遠在沙岸上行走， 
在沙土和泡沫的中間。 
高潮會抹去我的腳印， 
風也會把泡沫吹走。 
但是海洋和沙岸卻將永遠存在。 
I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my foot-prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam.
But the sea and the shore will remain
Forever.
2.一粒珍珠是痛苦圍繞著一粒沙子所建造起來的廟宇。 
是什麼願望圍繞著什麼樣的沙粒，建造起我們的軀體呢？ 
A peal is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand.
What longing built our bodies and around what grains?
3.當神把我這塊石子丟在奇妙的湖裡的時候，我以無數的圈紋擾亂了它的表面。 
但是當我落到深處的時候，我就變得十分安靜了。 
When God threw me ,a pebble,into this wondrous lake I disturbed its surface with coun A peal is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand.
4.給我靜默，我將向黑夜挑戰。 
Give me silence,and I will outdare the night.
5.當我的靈魂和肉體由相愛而結婚的時候，我就得到了重生。 
I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.
6.回憶是一種相見。 
忘卻是一種自由。
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
7.人性是一條光河，從較為以前流向較為。
Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.
8.除了通過黑夜的道路，人們不能到達黎明。 
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
9.曾有七次，我鄙視了自己的靈魂： 
第一次是在它可以上升而卻謙讓的時候。 
第二次是我看見它在瘸者面前跛行的時候。 
第三次是讓它選擇難易，而它選了易的時候。 
第四次是它做錯了事，卻安慰自己說別人也同樣做錯了事。 
第五次是它容忍了軟弱，而把它的忍受稱為堅強。 
第六次是當它輕蔑一個丑惡的容顏的時候，卻不知道那是它自己的面具中之一。 
第七次是當它唱一首頌歌的時候，自己相信這是一種美德。
Seven times have I despised my soul:
The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height.
The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.
The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.
The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong.
The fifth time when she forbore for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength.
The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.
10.在人的幻想和成就中間有一段空間，隻能靠他的熱望來通過。 
There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

本書收錄了有名詩人紀伯倫的兩部詩集：代表真理的“小”《先知》和智慧格言集《沙與沫》，由有名文學家冰心翻譯，是一本關於生命、藝術、愛情、人生的箴言書。“一花一世界，一沙一天國”，在紀伯倫的筆下，四季流轉，雲朵變幻，生命的解答蘊藏其中。

(黎巴嫩)紀伯倫(Kahlil Gibran) 著 冰心 譯