【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ull of weeds, we reap a useless we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at want the future to be better than the don’t want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the remainder of our past is gone and we can do will change future is before us and we do will affect day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our business, if we only recognize are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.[參考譯文]“我們正在讀一本書的第一章第一行，這本書的頁數(shù)是無限的??”我不知道是誰寫的，可我很喜歡這句話，它提醒我們未來是由自己創(chuàng)造的。我們可以把神秘、不可知的未來塑造成我們想象中的任何模樣，猶如雕刻家將未成形的石頭刻成雕像。我們每個人都像是農(nóng)夫。灑下良種將有豐收，播下劣種或生滿野草便將毀去收成。沒有耕耘則會一無所獲。我希望未來比過去更加美好，希望未來不會沾染歷史的錯誤與過失。我們都應(yīng)舉目向前，因我們的余生要用未來書寫。往昔已逝，靜如止水；我們無法再作改變。而前方的未來正生機勃勃；我們所做的每一件事都將會影響著它。只要我們認識到這些，無論是在家中還是在工作上，每天我們的面前都會展現(xiàn)出新的天地。在人類致力開拓的每一片領(lǐng)域上，我們正站在進步的起跑點。[美文欣賞]To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live on the present of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you arealways!Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about variety of thingsall at allow past problems and future concerns to dominate your present moments, so much so that we end up anxious, frustrated, depressed, and the flip side, we also postpone our gratification, our stated priorities, and our happiness, often convincing ourselves that “someday” will be much better than , the same mental dynamics that tell us to look toward the future will only repeat themselves so that 39。someday39。 never actually Lennone once said, “Life is what is happening while we are busy making other plans.” When we are busy making 39。other plans39。, our children are busy growing up, the people we love are moving away and dying, our bodies are getting out of shape, and our dreams are slipping short, we miss out on people lives as if life is a dress rehearsal for some later isn39。 fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control our attention is in the present moment, we push fear from our is the concern over events that might happen in the futurewe won39。t have enoughh money, our children will get into trouble, we will get old and die, bat fear, the best stradegy is to learn to bring your attention back to the Twain said,“I have been through some terrible things in life, some of which actually happened.” I don39。t think I can say it any keeping your attention on the here and effort will pay great dividends.[參考譯文]我們內(nèi)心是否平和在很大程度上是由我們是否能生活在現(xiàn)實之中所決定的．不管昨天或去年發(fā)生了什么，不管明天可能發(fā)生或不發(fā)生什么，現(xiàn)實才是你時時刻刻所在之處。毫無疑問，我們很多人掌握了一種神經(jīng)兮兮的藝術(shù)，即把生活中的大部分時間花在為種種事情擔心憂慮上－－而且常常是同時憂慮許多事情．我們聽憑過去的麻煩和未來的擔心控制我們此時此刻的生活，以至我們整日焦慮不安，委靡不振，甚至沮喪絕望．而另一方面我們又推遲我們的滿足感，推遲我們應(yīng)優(yōu)先考慮的事情，推遲我們的幸福感，常常說服自己“有朝一日”會比今天更好．不幸的是，如此告戒我們朝前看的大腦動力只能重復來重復去，以至“有朝一日”不會真的來臨．約翰．列儂曾經(jīng)說過：“生活就是當我們忙于制定別的計劃時發(fā)生的事．”當我們忙于指定種種＂別的計劃＂時，我們的孩子在忙于長大，我們摯愛的人離去了甚至快去世了，我們的體型變樣了，而我們的夢想也在消然溜走了．一句話，我們錯過了生活。許多人的生活好象是某個未來日子的彩排，并非如此。事實上，沒人能保證他或她肯定還活著?，F(xiàn)在是我們所擁有的唯一時間，現(xiàn)在也是我們能控制的唯一的時間。當我們將注意力放在此時此刻時，我們就將恐懼置于腦后?？謶志褪俏覀儞鷳n某些事情會在未來發(fā)生－－我們不諱有足夠的錢，我們的孩子會惹上麻煩，我們會變老，會死去，諸如此類。若要克服恐懼心理，最佳策略是學會將你的注意力拉回此時此刻。馬克．吐溫說過：“我經(jīng)歷過生活中一些可怕的事情，有些的確發(fā)生過?！蔽蚁胛艺f不出比這更具內(nèi)涵的話。經(jīng)常將注意力集中于此情此景，此時此刻，你的努力終會有豐厚的報償。[美文欣賞]Everybody has blue are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of can’t rise to the getting started seems blue days you can bee paranoid that everyone is out to get is not always such a bad feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nailbiting frenzy that can escalate into a triplechocolatemudcakeeating frenzy in a blink of an eye!On blue days you feel like you’re floating in an ocean of ’re about to burst into tears at any moment and you don’t even know , you feel like you’re wandering through life without ’re not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting,“Will someone please shoot me!”It doesn’t take much to bring on a blue might just wake up not feeling or looking your best,find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your could forget your date’s name or have an embarrassing photograph might get dumped,divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname,or just have a plain old badhair work is a pain in the ’re under major pressure to fill someone else’s shoes,your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you might have a splitting headache,or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache,chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown the reason, you’re convinced that someone up there doesn’t like what to do, what to do?[參考譯文]每個人都有憂郁的時候。那些日子真是慘透了，你覺得心里亂糟糟的、怨氣叢生、寂寞、整個人徹底的精疲力竭。那些日子總會讓你感到自己的渺小和微不足道，每件事情似乎都夠不著邊。你根本無法振作起來。根本沒有力氣重新開始。在憂郁的日子里，你可能變成偏執(zhí)狂，覺得每個人都想要吃定你。其實情況并不總是那么糟。你感到灰心、焦慮，可能開始神經(jīng)質(zhì)地拼命咬指甲，然后不可救藥地陷入一眨眼吃掉三大塊巧克力蛋糕的瘋狂！在憂郁的日子里，你會覺得自己在悲傷的海里沉沉浮浮。不論在什么時候，你總有種想哭的沖動，卻不知道為了什么。最后，你覺得自己猶如行尸走肉，失去生活目標。你不知道自己還可以撐多久，然后你想大喊一聲：“誰來一槍把我打死吧！” 其實一點小事就讓你一天都郁悶難當。也許只是一覺醒來，沒有感覺到或者看到自己最棒的一面，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己又多了幾條皺紋，又重了幾斤，或是鼻子上冒出了一個大包。你可能忘記了約會對象的名字，或是有張可笑的照片被登出來。你或許被人拋棄、離了婚，或是被開除，當眾出丑，被刻薄的綽號弄得心亂如麻，或許只因為你得整天頂著一個其丑無比的發(fā)型。也許工作讓你痛苦得如坐針氈。你在強大的壓力下頂替他人的位置，你的老板對你百般挑剔，辦公室里的每一個人都讓你發(fā)瘋。你可能會頭疼欲裂，或重心不穩(wěn)跌個正著，口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口干舌燥，或是指甲長到肉里頭了。不管什么原因，你確定上面有人不喜歡你。唉，該怎么辦，到底該怎么辦呢？[美文欣賞]“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite...”I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless are all in the position of the we plant a good seed, we reap a good our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at want t