Concentration Finds the Way
不幸就像一张巨大而不易破坏的网,等待着我们每一个人落网。
当有一天它突然降临,
我们那颗未设防的心连同那美好的幸福都会在瞬间化为乌有。
灾难并不可怕,可怕的是你无法承受灾难。
当悲哀、疼痛或不幸这些黑暗降临在我们头上时,
当你迈着疲劳而踌躇的脚步蹒跚而行时,
你完全可以选择永远快乐、永远幸福,
或是选择无尽的黑暗。
生活没有什么是你能力所不及的,也没有什么是你无法承受的。
去面对黑夜、暴风雨、饥饿、愚弄、意外和挫折吧!
就像树和动物一样。
在不幸中成长
The Lesson of Evil
詹姆斯·艾伦 / James Allen
Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life. There is no heart in all the world that has not felt the sting of pain, no mind has not been tossed upon the dark waters of trouble, no eye that has not wept the hot blinding tears of unspeakable anguish...
In the strong, and apparently indestructible meshes of evil all are more or less fast caught, and pain, unhappiness and misfortune wait upon mankind.
With the object of escaping, or in some way mitigating this overshadowing gloom, men and women rush blindly into innumerable devices, pathways by which they fondly hope to enter into a happiness which will not pass away.
Such are the drunkard and the harlot, who revel in sensual excitements; such is the exclusive aesthete, who shuts himself out from tulle sorrows of the world, and surrounds himself with enervating luxuries; such is he who thirsts for wealth or fame, and subordinates all things to the achievement of that object; and such are they who seek consolation in the performance of religious rites.
And to all the happiness sought seems to come, and the soul, for a time, is lulled into a sweet security, and an intoxicating forgetfulness of the existence of evil; but the day of disease comes at last, or some great sorrow, temptation, or misfortune breaks suddenly in on the unfortified soul, and the fabric of its fancied happiness is torn to shreds.