英漢英語美文：祈愿，傾聽心聲
the supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or "good," but simply to be radiant. i desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. i wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. i wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected--ready to say "i do not know," if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality--to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
i wish others to live their lives, too--up to their highest, fullest and best. to that end i pray that i may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. if i can help people, i'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if i can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. that is to say, i desire to be radiant--to radiate life.原文鏈接：http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/64623/45883/dz
我由衷的最大的祈愿，不是博學(xué)、不是富有、不是出人頭地、不是權(quán)勢(shì)、或者什么“好處”，而僅僅是發(fā)光。我渴望發(fā)出健康之光、快活之光、沉著的勇氣之光以及良好的愿望之光。我祈望無仇恨、無異念、無嫉妒、無艷羨、無憂也無慮地生活；我祈望質(zhì)樸、誠(chéng)實(shí)、坦率、自然天成、身心潔凈、不加矯飾——若不知，便坦言 “不知”，而且要絕對(duì)平等地對(duì)待所有的人——泰然自若、無所畏懼地去面對(duì)任何險(xiǎn)阻、去迎接每一個(gè)困難。
我也祈愿他人過他們自己的生活——至最高、至最充實(shí)、至最佳。最后，我發(fā)誓：當(dāng)不需要我的服務(wù)的時(shí)候，我決不會(huì)介入、干預(yù)、命令、提出人家不想聽的勸告或者多余的輔佐。如果我可以給人們以幫助的話，我要做的，就是給他們提供自助的機(jī)會(huì)；如果我能使之振奮、使之鼓舞，那就要以身作則、條分縷析、提出建議，而不是強(qiáng)制命令、頤指氣使。這就是我要說的，我渴望的是發(fā)光——讓生命放射光芒。
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