You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

必须相信点什么，的直觉、命、生活、因缘，什么都可以。

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart. Even when it leads you off the well worn path .And that will make all the difference.

再强调一次，不可能充满预见地将生命的点滴串联起来；只有在回头看的时候，发现这些点点滴滴之间的联系。所以，要坚信，现在所经历的将在未来的生命中串联起 来。不得不相信某些东西，的直觉、命、生活、因缘际… … 正是这种信仰让不失去希望，它让的人生变得与众不同。

I started out as a pre-med student, and chemistry changed that course pretty quickly.

从来没有接受过任何专业的演讲稿撰写。本来是医学预科学生，但在因缘际下，很快就转换了人生跑道。

Lost lilies, but this is karma, it speaks of loss and grief.

逝去的百合花，但这是因缘，它诉说着失落和悲伤。

But my insanity of trying the same thing over and over again eventually yielded a different result for no discernible reason.

直到疯狂地尝试了无数次同样的做法后，最终因缘际有了意外不同的结果。

I was very young when I wrote my first book. By a lucky chance it excited attention, and various persons sought my acquaintance.

写第一本书的时候非常年轻，但由于偶然的因缘这本书引起了人们的注意，不少人想要同结识。

You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

的勇气、命、生活、因缘，诸如此类。

There's so much that is allowed for you to be at the culmination of so many things as Led to you and there will never be another you.

身上汇聚了如此多的因缘，而这一切都让成为独一无二的自己，这样的，再也不有第二个。

Whether or not the conversation is going to work is still left to this mix of causes and conditions, right?

这场对话能否顺利进行， 仍取决于这些因缘际的交织，对吧？

4 Cf. Lin Yutang, Between Tears and Laughter, op, cit. In the chapter on " Karma, " the author expresses his astonishment at the lack of understanding of these psychic laws in Western civilization.

4 参见林语堂，《啼笑因缘》，同上。在“业力”一章中，作者表达了他对西方文明对这些心理法则缺乏理解的惊讶。

2 Lin Yutang, Between Tears and Laughter, John Day, 1943.

2 林语堂，《啼笑因缘》，约翰戴出版社，1943。

Causes and conditions bring it about.

因缘和条件导致了这一切。