英語美文：知足者常樂

1、56、“There” Is No Better than “Here”知足者常樂生詞攔路虎1. soberminded adj. 頭腦清醒的2. aspiration n. 渴望3. gratitude n. 感恩之心4. abundance n. 充足5. fulfill v. 完成6. appreciative adj. 感激的7. strive v. 努力8. cultivate v. 培養(yǎng)9. irrelevant adj. 不相干的10. joyously adv. 快樂地11. scarcity n. 不足12. amass v.收集13. accumulate v. 累積14.

2、considerable adj. 相當大的15. bizarre adj. 奇異的16. lawsuit n. 訴訟17. deplete v. 耗盡18. extravagant adj. 奢侈的19. dependable adj. 可靠的20. external adj. 客觀的悅讀時刻Many people believe that they will be happy once they arrive at some specific goal they set for themselves. However, more often than not, once you arriv

3、e “there” you will still feel dissatisfied, and move your “there” vision to yet another point in the future. By always chasing after another “there,” you are never really appreciating what you already have right “here.” It is important for human beings to keep soberminded about the age-old drive to

4、look beyond the place where you now stand. On one hand, your life is enhanced by your dreams and aspirations. On the other hand, these drives can pull you farther and farther from your enjoyment of your life right now. By learning the lessons of gratitude and abundance, you can bring yourself closer

5、 to fulfilling the challenge of living in the present.Gratitude. To be grateful means you are thankful for and appreciative of what you have and where you are on your path right now. Gratitude fills your heart with the joyful feeling and allows you to fully appreciate everything that arises on your

6、path. As you strive to keep your focus on the present moment, you can experience the full wonder of “here.”There are many ways to cultivate gratitude. Here are just a few suggestions:1. Imagine what your life would be like if you lost all that you had. This will most surely remind you of how much yo

7、u do appreciate it.2. Make a list each day of all that you are grateful for, so that you can stay conscious daily of your blessings. Do this especially when you are feeling as though you have nothing to feel grateful for. Or spend a few minutes before you go to sleep giving thanks for all that you h

8、ave.3. Spend time offering assistance to those who are less fortunate than you, so that you may gain perspective.However you choose to learn gratitude is irrelevant. What really matters is that you create a space in your consciousness for appreciations for all that you have right now, so that you ma

9、y live more joyously in your present moment.Abundance. One of the most common human fears is scarcity. Many people are afraid of not having enough of what they need or want, and so they are always striving to get to a point when they would finally have enough.Alan and Linda always dreamed of living

10、“the good life.” Both from poor working-class families, they married young and set out to fulfill their mutual goal of becoming wealthy. They both worked very hard for years, amassing a small fortune. No matter how much they accumulated, however, it never seemed to be enough. They needed to learn th

11、e lesson of abundance. Then the stock market crashed in 1987, and Alan and Linda lost a considerable amount of money. A bizarre but costly lawsuit depleted another huge portion of their savings. One thing led to another, and they found themselves in a financial disaster. It took several years and mu

12、ch hard work for Alan and Linda to land on their feet, and though they now live a life far from extravagant, they have taken stock of their lives and feel quite blessed. Only now, as they assess what they have left-a solid, loving marriage, their health, a dependable income, and good friends-do they

13、 realize that true abundance comes not from amassing, but rather from appreciating. Scarcity consciousness arises as a result of the “hole-in-the-soul syndrome.” This is when we attempt to fill the gaps in our inner lives with things from the outside world. No amount of external objects, affection,

14、love, or attention can ever fill an inner void. We already have enough, so we should revel in our own interior abundance.中文參考一些人認為一旦他們實現(xiàn)給自己制定的某些具體目標，他們就會快樂。然而，你常常會發(fā)現(xiàn)，一旦你到達了“那里”，你仍然會感覺不滿足，而且會將的你“那里”的視野移向未來的某一點。不斷的追求一個又一個“那里”，你永遠不能真正欣賞你已經(jīng)在“這里”所擁有的一切。人類在面對“不滿足現(xiàn)狀”這個古老的驅(qū)動力時保持冷靜的頭腦很重要。一方面，你的生活通過你的夢想和渴望來提高

15、。另一方面，這些驅(qū)動力使你越來越遠離你現(xiàn)有的生活中的快樂。學會感激和滿足，你會更加接近如何成功地完成“當下”生活中的挑戰(zhàn)。感激。感激的含義是你對于你現(xiàn)在所擁有的一切和你現(xiàn)在所在人生旅途中的位置心存感激并欣賞。感激使你的心充滿愉悅的感覺并且使你完全欣賞人生路上的所有景致。在你將焦點放在“現(xiàn)在”的時候，你就能夠體會“這里”的全部奇妙。培養(yǎng)感激的心情有很多方式。以下是一些建議：1. 想象一下如果你失去你現(xiàn)在所擁有的一切，你的生活將是什么樣子。這一定會提醒你應該多么感激現(xiàn)有的一切。2. 每天列出所有你要心存感激的事，這樣你每天都會意識到自己應該懷有感恩之心。當你覺得你沒有什么需要感激的時候更要這樣做。

16、或者在睡前拿出幾分鐘時間感謝你所擁有的一切。3. 拿出時間向那些沒有你幸運的人提供幫助，這樣你可能會獲得新的認識。你如何去學習感恩無關緊要。重要的是你在心中留下了一席之地去感激你所擁有的一切。這樣你可以更開心的活在“現(xiàn)在”。滿足。人類最害怕的東西之一是不足。很多人害怕無法擁有足夠的他們需要或者想要的東西，于是他們在要最終獲得足夠的東西的時候還會覬覦其他的。艾倫和琳達總是夢想過“好生活”。兩人都來自于貧困的工薪階層家庭，他們很早結(jié)婚，開始為變得富有這一共同目標努力。他們努力工作了很多年，積累了一點財富。無論他們積累了多少財富，似乎都是不夠的。他們需要學會滿足。1987年股市崩盤，艾倫和琳達損失了一大筆錢。一件奇怪而且花費很多的訴訟又耗掉了他們另一大筆積蓄。雪上加霜，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己陷入經(jīng)濟困境中。艾倫和琳達更加努力的工作了幾年才使生活又安定下來。盡管他們的生活大大地遠離了奢華，但是他們更懂得生活了，他們感到很幸福。只有現(xiàn)在他們審視他們剩下的財富的時候堅定而且充滿愛的婚姻、健康、穩(wěn)定的收入、好朋友他們才認識到滿足不是來自于積蓄而是感恩的心