[8-31]英语美文 心静如水的境界
[p=23, 2, left][size=4]Joshua Loth Liebman "On my head pour only the sweet waters of serenity. Give me the gift of the Untroubled Mind."[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4][/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]Once, as a yongy man full of exuberant fancy, I undertollk to draw up a catalogue of the acknowledged "goods" of life. As other men sometimes tabulate lists of properties they own or would like to own, I set down my inventory of earthly desirables: health, love, beauty, talent, power,riches,and fame.[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]
[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]When my inventory was completed I proudly showed it to a wise elder who had been the mentor and spiritual model of my youth. Perhaps I was trying to impress him with my precocious wisdom. Anywany, I handed him the list. "This", I told him confidently, "is the sum of mortal goods. Could a man possess them all, he would be as a god."[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]
[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]
At the corners of my friend's old eyes, I saw wrinkles of amusement gathering in a patient net. "An excellent list," he said, pondering it thoughtfully, "well digested in contented and set down in not-unresonable order. But it appears, my young friend, that you have omitted the most important element of all. You have forgotten the one ingredient, lacking with each possession becomes a hideous torment."[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4][img]http://www.hxen.com/d/file/englisharticle/yingyumeiwen/2009-08-10/523c4454a99c2eb2a63a1bb4c57ef96e.jpg[/img][/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]"And what." I asked, peppering my voice with truculence, "is that missing ingredient?"[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]"What a pencil stub he crossed out my entire schedule. Then, haveing demolished my adolscent dream structure at a single stroke, he wrote down three syllables: peace of mind. “This is the gift that God reserves for His special Proteges." he said.[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]
[/size][/p][p=23, 2, left][size=4]"Talent and beauty He gives to many. Wealth is commonplace, fame not rare. But peace of mind - that is His final guerdon of approval, the fondest insignia of His love, He bestows it charily. Most men are never blessed with it; others wait all their lives- yes, far into advanced age - for this gift to descend upon them."[/size][/p] [color=#000][font=宋体, arial]集美貌与智慧于一身的人不计其数、富裕之人随处可见、名望之人也不在少数。但是内心平静——是上帝对他的眷顾者的恩赐，是对他的偏爱者的最荣耀的奖赏，他从不慷慨给予。绝大多数人无缘此殊荣；另外的等待了一辈子——直到鬓发斑白，终于如愿以偿。[/font][/color]
页:
[1]