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赖以生存的两条真理(2)

■ 心灵小语

赖以生存的两条真理:一是珍惜周围的一切;二是放弃欲念,追求心中的美好。

Two Truths to Live By

Alexander M。 Schindler

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go。 For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment。 The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man es to this world with his fist clenched; but when he dies; his hand is open。”

Surely we ought to hold fast to life; for it is wondrous; and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth。 We know that this is so; but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what was and then suddenly realize that it is no more。

We remember a beauty that faded; a love that waned。 But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered; that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered。

A recent experience re…taught me this truth。 I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days。 It was not a pleasant place。

One morning; I had to have some additional tests。 The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital; so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney。

As we emerged from our unit; the sunlight hit me。 That’s all there was to my experience。 Just the light of the —how warming; how sparkling; how brilliant!

I looked to see whether anyone else realized the sun’s golden glow; but everyone was hurrying to and fro; most with eyes fixed on the ground。 Then I remembered how often I; too; had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day; too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all。

The insight gleaned from that experience is really as monplace as was the experience itself: life’s gifts are precious—but we are too heedless of them。

Here then is the first pole of life’s paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life。 Be reverent before each dawning day。 Embrace each hour。 Seize each golden minute。

Hold fast to life; but not so fast that you cannot let go。 This is the second side of life’s coin; the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses; and learn how to let go。

This is not an easy lesson to learn; especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to mand; that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can; will; be ours。 But then life moves along to confront us with realities; and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us。

At every stage of life we sustain losses—and grow in the process。 We begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter。 We enter a progression of schools; then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes。 We get married and have children and then have to let them go。 We confront the death of our parents and our spouses。 We face the gradual or not so gradual waning of our own strength。 And ultimately; as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests; we must confront the inevitability of our own demise; losing ourselves as it were; all that we were or dreamed to be。

赖以生存的两条真理(3)

But why should we be reconciled to life’s contradictory demands? Why fashion things of beauty is evanescent ? Why give our heart in love when those we love will ultimately be torn from our grasp?

In order to resolve this paradox; we must seek a wider perspective; viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity。 Once we do that; we realize that though our lives are finite; our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern。

Life is never just being。 It is a being; a relentless flowing on。 Our parents live on through us; and we will live on through our children。 The institutions we build endure; and we will endure through them。 The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death。 Our flesh may perish; our hands will wither; but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to e。

Dont spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes。 Pursue not so much the material as the ideal; for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth。

Add love to a house and you have a home。 Add righteousness to a city and you have a munity。 Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a school。 Add justice to the far…flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization。 Put them all together; exalt them above their present imperfections; add to them the vision of humankind redeemed; forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope。

第二次生命的启示(1)

拉尔夫?里士满

就在十年前,我与拿着听诊器的医生相对而坐。他说:“你的左肺叶上部有一处坏损,病情正在恶化……”听到这些,我顿时愣住了,他接着说道:“你必须放下工作,卧床休息。稍后,我们会对你进行进一步的观察……”对于我的病情,医生也不是太确定。

事业正值中天的我突然感觉像被判了刑,而刑期却尚未确定。我走出医生的办公室,坐在公园的长椅上,自言自语道,这也许是最后一次了。我需要好好想一想。

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