热爱生活
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你想的那样坏。你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也许还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。
HOW WATER BEGAN TO PLAY
Water wanted to live
It went to the sun it came weeping back
Water wanted to live
It went to the trees they burned it came weeping back
They rotted it came weeping back
Water wanted to live
It went to the flowers they crumpled it came weeping back
It wanted to live It went to the womb it met blood
It came weeping back It went to the womb it met knife
It came weeping back
It went to the womb it met maggot and rottenness
It came weeping back it wanted to die
It went to time it went through the stone door
It came weeping back
It went searching through all space for nothingness
It came weeping back it wanted to die
Till it had no weeping left
It lay at the bottom of all things
Utterly worn out utterly clear
Love Your
Life
Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is,meet it and live it ,do
not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you think.It
looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find
faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps
have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hours,even in a
poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the
alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts
before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet
mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts as
in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most
independent lives of all.Maybe they are simply great enough to
receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being
supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above
supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more
disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not
trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends.
Turn to the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell
your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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