第7课 经典散文——捕捉美丽瞬间
散文一种最自由的文学体裁，指不讲究韵律的散体文章，包括杂文、随笔、游记等通常以记叙、抒情、论理等方式来描写生活经历，抒发情感，表达人生感悟和哲学思考。读散文，时而令我们愉悦，时而令我们沉思，时而令我们愁肠百转，时而又令我们豁然开朗。散文中，有奥妙无穷的大千世界，也有微妙莫测的心灵领域，处处弥散着美的因子。
散文是岁月里凝结的思绪，心灵里流淌的歌声。散文集诸美于一体，通常体现在语言美、意境美、情感美和哲思美等层面。散文的语言清新自然句式长短相间，读来朗朗上口，如音乐般摇曳多姿，和谐悦耳。作家通过美妙的文字寄情于景，形成一种感人至深、耐人寻味的艺术境界，从而将散文的美升华到至情至理的高度。散文好比玉石之璞，要窥测到其美的存在需要我们用情感去置换，用理性去思索，用心灵去感受。让我们开始品读本堂阅读课的经典散文吧，让我们尽情地在美中徜徉，享受一次令人欢欣鼓舞的审美体验，而更为重要的是，这种美会启发我们去思考。
Part1 Questing Inward
探寻内心
选文介绍
约书亚?罗斯?李普曼（JoshuaLothLiebman，1907－1948），犹太人，美国著名传道士、文学家。《心灵的宁静》（PeaceofMind）是李普曼的代表作，于1946年出版。书中文字隽永清新，阅读时让人的心有种豁然开朗的释然，原本堆积于心的各种负面情绪会飘离而去，升腾而起的是精神的轻松、顿悟、温柔和崇高。本文摘自该书的第一章“探寻内心”（Questing Inward）。
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“On my head pour only the sweet waters of serenity. Give me the gift of the Untroubled Mind.”
Once, as a young man full of exuberant fancy, I undertook to draw up a catalogue of the acknowledged “goods” of life. As other men sometimes tabulate lists of properties they own or would like to own, I set down my inventory of earthly desirables: health, love, beauty, talent, power, riches, and fame.
When my inventory was completed I proudly showed it to a wise elder who had been the mentor and spiritual model of my youth?. Perhaps I was trying to impress him with my precocious wisdom. Anyway, I handed him the list. “This”, I told him confidently, “is the sum of mortal goods. Could a man possess them all?, he would be as a god.”
At the corners of my friend’s old eyes, I saw wrinkles of amusement gathering in a patient net?. “An excellent list,” he said, pondering it thoughtfully, “well digested in content and set down in not-unreasonable order?. But it appears, my young friend, that you have omitted the most important element of all. You have forgotten the one ingredient, lacking which each possession becomes a hideous torment.?”
“And what,” I asked, peppering my voice with truculence, “is that missing ingredient?”
With a pencil stub he crossed out my entire schedule. Then, having demolished my adolescent dream structure at a single stroke, he wrote down three syllables: peace of mind. “This is the gift that God reserves for His special Protégés,” he said.
“Talent and beauty He gives to many.??Wealth is commonplace, fame not rare. But peace of mind—that is His final guerdon of approval, the fondest insignia of His love. He bestows it charily. Most men are never blessed with it; others wait all their lives—yes, far into advanced age—for this gift to descend upon them.”
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