《沉思录·卷十二·此刻即全部》第30条
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite. There is one common substance, though it is distributed among countless bodies which have their several qualities. There is one soul, though it is distributed among infinite natures and individual circumscriptions [or individuals]. There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided. Now in the things which have been mentioned, all the other parts, such as those which are air and matter, are without sensation and have no fellowship: and yet even these parts the intelligent principle holds together and the gravitation towards the same. But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
注释摘要
这段札记是奥勒留对宇宙统一性的沉思，他从最外在的物理现象层层推进到最内在的理智本性，以此论证人与人之间、人与宇宙之间的深层联结绝非幻觉，而是实在。 他先从太阳光说起。光是同一个，但它被墙壁、山脉等无数障碍分割成看似彼此孤立的片段。这不是光的本性使然，而是障碍物造成的假象。同理，宇宙间一切事物所由构成的那个共同实体——斯多葛派称为“质料”或“基质”——只有一…