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给生命以意义
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你考虑过去世后人们对你的评价吗？你听说过这样的话吗？他真是个伟大的人。她真应该受到怀念。人们还会说些什么？
人生最奇异的事情之一就是想从事一项死后还存之久远的工作。那不是酷似把自己所有的金钱都投资在造福子孙后代的事业上吗？然而，如果你审视自己的内心深处，你会发现有一股力量在驱使着你做这样一种贡献——去寻找一个名垂青史的目标。
你希望自己的名字被人记住吗？你希望自己有一个被人带着敬畏之心口口相传的名字吗？你希望把自己的头像刻入一块五十英尺的花岗岩吗？答案就那么简单吗？人生的目标就是由一个内驱的愿望使一个凡夫俗子留下一个不朽的令名，还有没有更多的意义？
一个今天还活蹦乱跳的孩子明天就可能死去。一人有潜力成为下一个爱因斯坦的婴儿可能死于出生并发症。生命的环境并没有刻入石头。我们并不一定会活过一生，一直到老。随着成长我们意识到生命是一个完满的周期，里面有一些年的时光属于我们。如果有谁不能过完这些年，那就是一个悲剧。说悲剧是因为一个人的潜力还没有被实现，一个火花还没有燃成熊熊烈焰就会掐灭。
由于栖息于一个躯壳，我们承认人生有以下危险：我们的凡胎肉体要暴露于周边的自然环境法则之中。细想一下，你会觉得这并不是很糟糕。当我们构建生活应该是什么样子的人生幻想时，问题也随之而生。当生活与我们的幻想不一致时，我们感到不安，挫败或沮丧。
我们活着，那就让我们生活吧。我们有能力体验，那就让我们体验吧。我们有能力学习，那就让我们学习吧。生命的意义可以在瞬间被把握，如此短暂的瞬间常常被人的感知所忽略。
当生命的大幕戏剧般地拉开时，它后面隐含着什么意义呢？当周围所有其它真理随时光而逝时，我们宝贵的一生应该抓住哪一条真理并依此一生呢？
这些瞬间以我们所称的一系列事件连坠在一起。这些连坠在一起的事件我们称之为生活。我们抓住这些瞬间，让它服务于我们的被内在力量所驱使意志，这时，我们就找到了生命的意义，那就是当我们辞世很久后，我们的生命仍有意义。
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Giving Life Meaning
Have you thought about what you want people to say about you after you’re gone? Can you hear the voice saying, “He was a great man.” Or “She really will be missed.” What else do they say?
One of the strangest phenomena of life is to engage in a work that will last long after death. Isn’t that a lot like investing all your money so that future generations can bare interest on it? Perhaps, yet if you look deep in your own heart, you’ll find something drives you to make this kind of contribution---something drives every human being to find a purpose that lives on after death.
Do you hope to memorialize your name? Have a name that is whispered with reverent awe? Do you hope to have your face carved upon 50 ft of granite rock? Is the answer really that simple? Is the purpose of lifetime contribution an ego-driven desire for a mortal being to have an immortal name or is it something more?
A child alive today will die tomorrow. A baby that had the potential to be the next Einstein will die from complications at birth. The circumstances of life are not set in stone. We are not all meant to live life through to old age. We’ve grown to perceive life as a full cycle with a certain number of years in between. If all of those years aren’t lived out, it’s a tragedy. A tragedy because a human’s potential was never realized. A tragedy because a spark was snuffed out before it ever became a flame.
By virtue of inhabiting a body we accept these risks. We expose our mortal flesh to the laws of the physical environment around us. The trade off isn’t so bad when you think about it. The problem comes when we construct mortal fantasies of what life should be like. When life doesn’t conform to our fantasy we grow upset, frustrated, or depressed.
We are alive; let us live. We have the ability to experience; let us experience. We have the ability to learn; let us learn. The meaning of life can be grasped in a moment. A moment so brief it often evades our perception.
What meaning stands behind the dramatic unfolding of life? What single truth can we grasp and hang onto for dear life when all other truths around us seem to fade with time?
These moments are strung together in a series we call events. These events are strung together in a series we call life. When we seize the moment and bend it according to our will, a will driven by the spirit deep inside us, then we have discovered the meaning of life, a meaning for us that shall go on long after we depart this Earth.
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