The world as I see it.doc

The world as I see it 身为凡人，我们处身于一个特别殊胜的机缘里，来此尘世经历一段短暂的旅程；虽然不能清楚地理解来此尘世的目的，但有时候，从生活中我们又能隐隐感受到一些生命的真相。如不深究其理，简单地从日常生活的角度来理解，我们其实是为了身边的亲友而存在的，特别是为了那些让我们在意，并且能直接牵动我们幸福的人的笑容与福祉而存在。再其次，就是为了那些我们并不认识，但因为同理心而与我们命运相连的人们。我每天都会提醒自己数百次，自己内在与外在的生活，都有赖于其他人们的辛勤劳动，就在享受别人付出的同时，我必须发挥贡献自己的力量，同样地为社会和他人的福祉而努力。我个人非常认同简单的生活方式，并不由自主地觉得从别人那儿得到的太多。我认为阶层差异是与公平正义背道而驰的，特别是基于武力（force）所形成的阶级差异。我也认为简单的生活对每个人的生理和心理都是有益的。 The World as I see it What an extraordinary situation is that of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he feels it. But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men--in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally. 从哲学的观点来看，我从不相信人们享有完全的自由。每个人的行为不仅被外在的强制力约束，更被内在的需要驱动。叔本华有句名言“人能为所欲为，但不能驭其所欲”，这句话在我年轻时就启发了我，并且不断地在人生艰难的时刻成为我和许多人的慰藉以及忍耐的泉源。幸运地，这种体会减轻了那易于令人麻木的责任感，并防止我们过于严肃地对待自己和别人；最重要的是，这种体会有助于让幽默感在我们的人生观里占到其应有的位置。 In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauers saying, that a man can do as he will, but not will as he will, has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of th