There are more than this handful of books that have influenced me and my work as a therapist: from On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers to In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine. It is impossible to list them all.

无论是卡尔·罗杰斯的《成为一个人》还是皮特·莱文的《身体创伤愈疗之道》，对我和我的心理咨询工作产生深远影响的书数不胜数，不胜列举。

What I have for you here is not a collection on “how to’s”; instead, they are what I, as a fellow traveler on this long flexuous road of life, have found refuge in during moments of chaos, uncertainty, and confusion in my life.

此处所汇集的并非是针对心理症状的“十万个怎么办”，而是我作为漫漫人生路上的一位同旅者，在感到世事混沌无常，心中迷惑苦闷时，曾获取的心灵馈赠。

These books share something in common: they are fairly easy to read, compared to Gestalt Therapy by Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman or Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk; however, this does not imply that they are easy to comprehend.

这些书有一个共同之处：相较于皮尔斯、哈佛林、古德曼合著的《格式塔疗法》或是范德考克的《身体从未忘记》这样的“大部头”，这些书算是比较“易读”的；但这并不意味着他们“易懂”。

What’s interesting about these books is that each time I read them I believe I understand what they are trying to convey; yet each time I re-read them, they feel like brand new books again.

这些书的有趣之处在于，每次捧起我都自以为懂得了书中的奥妙，然而下一次它们又仿若是崭新未知的著作了。

For each book, I have selected a quote that resonates with me the most as a sneak peek. My hope is that in this collection you will find something that speaks to you, that offers a firm hand if you need a lift, or that shed some light on a dim corner of you psyche.

我自每本书中选择了最与我产生共鸣的语句段落，作为对他们的“介绍”。我希望你能在此书单中找到共同语言，或是能够支持你的力量，又或是点亮你心里未知角落的光。

I only quote in the language I read the book, because I believe even with the same book, it reaches us differently in another language. I, however, will write down the Chinese translated title for your reference.

我只能从我自己阅读的语言中摘取段落；因为我认为即便是同一本书，翻译成不同的语言，所产生的的感触大有不同。我把中文译本的名称列在后面，以供中文读者查阅。

There is no order to this list.

此书单不分前后顺序。

“Out of this moment, when the world melted away all around him, when he stood alone like a star in the sky, out of this moment of cold and despair, Siddhartha emerged, more a self than before, more firmly concentrated. He felt: This had been the last tremor of the awakening, the last struggle of this birth. And it was not long until he walked again in long strides, started to proceed swiftly and impatiently, heading no longer for home, no longer to his father, no longer back.”

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha 赫尔曼·黑塞《悉达多》

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist 保罗•戈埃罗《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》

“Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet 莱内•马利亚·里尔克《致一位年轻诗人的信》

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not towards one ‘object’ of love.”

Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving 艾里希·弗洛姆《爱的艺术》

“…but the truth is that things don’t really get resolved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart 佩玛·丘卓《当生命陷落时》

“The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.”

Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd 古斯塔夫・勒庞《乌合之众》

For more detailed reviews on other books, you can also refer to “The Mind-Blowing Secrets of Our Genes” that I wrote about Mark Wolynn’s “It Didn’t Start with You.” I will continue to share my writings on other therapeutic books.

我另写过一篇对马克·沃林恩的《这不是你的错：海灵格家庭创伤疗愈之道》的随笔（英文），日后也会慢慢分享其它的推荐书籍和我的随想。