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使人愉快的地方。A recent experience retaught 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.一天上午,我得加做幾項檢查。我要用的醫(yī)療器械安裝在醫(yī)院另一端的大樓里。所以我只有坐輪椅穿過院子才能到達那里。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.當我們走出病房時,陽光正照在我身上。就我實際的經(jīng)歷而言,當時也沒有什么別的。只不過就是陽光。而這時的陽光是多么美麗、多么溫暖、多么耀眼、多么輝煌 !As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. That39。s all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it washow warming, how sparkling, how brilliant!我打量著別人是否也在欣賞著這太陽的金色光芒??墒?,人人都來去匆匆,大多數(shù)人的目光只盯在地上。這時我想到自己過去又何嘗不是往往對每天的壯觀景象視而不見,一頭埋在細小的,有時甚至是卑鄙、自私的事務(wù)中,而對日常的奇觀麻木不仁呢 ?I looked to see whether anyone else relished the sun39。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.從這次經(jīng)歷所獲得的頓悟確如經(jīng)歷本身一樣的平凡。生命的賜予是寶貴的,可惜我們對它們太掉以輕心了。The insight gleaned from that experience is really as monplace as was the experience itself: life39。s gifts are precious b