wn became knowledge。 But most important of all; the truth; that dangerous stuff; became beautiful and precious。

I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things; she brought discovery。

She aroused us to shouting; book…waving discussion。 She had the noisiest class in school and she didn’t even seem to know it。 We could never stick to the subject。 Our speculation ranged the world。 She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies。

She was fired and perhaps rightly so; for failing to teach fundamentals。 Such things must be learned。 But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left。 I could not do simple arithmetic but through her I sensed that abstract mathematics was very much like music。 When she was relieved; a sadness came over us but the light did not go out。

奉獻是支付租金(1)

李·黑斯廷斯·布里斯托爾

人類生活在複雜的社會和文明中,總會不可避免地感到困惑。然而,我相信:人類自身才是解決全世界和群體問題的根本,無論是否公開承認,每個人的內心深處都藏著一個精神家園。揭開覆蓋在它表層的東西,它永遠在那裡,沒有人能夠將其隱藏。我相信上帝和有序的宇宙,這是我所有信條中的第一個。

生命是有限的,我相信,人類應該為自己追求幸福,同時也為他人帶去幸福,這才是人類真正要追求的最基本的生活目標。回顧自己豐富的生活閱歷,我明白了,真正的幸福似乎是自私和以自我為中心。但是,那些牟取私利、滿足個人物質需要的人永遠不會擁有真正的幸福。只有當幸福與無私、體諒他人聯絡在一起時,這種幸福才會是有深度、真正令人滿意的幸福。幸福的本質是奉獻,這種奉獻帶來了我們所有人所追求的真正幸福。曾經有人說過這樣的話:“幸福是我們為在地球上佔據的空間而支付的租金。”

自私自利是世界上最令人憎惡的惡行,它是一切幸福的對立面。世界的每一個角落似乎都存在著這種惡行,國家之間對於權利的貪婪追求,人與人之間為了物質財富而進行的鬥爭。

每個人都需要一種幽默感和分寸感,我相信幽默感是理解的開端,能夠使人類沉著、