上外英语专业综合教程(第二版)3_Unit11.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Text20 Text II Memorable Quotes 20 I have been fortunate to have known several of those the world deems “saints”: Teilhard de Chardin, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Clemie, an old black woman in Mississippi. To be looked at by these people is to be gifted with the look that engenders. You feel yourself primed at the depths by such seeing. Something so tremendous and yet so subtle wakes up inside that you are able to release the defeats and denigrations of years. If I were to describe it further, I would have to speak of unconditional love joined to a whimsical regarding of you as the cluttered house that hides the holy one. Text21-22 Text II Memorable Quotes 21 Saints, you say, but the miracle is that anybody can do it for anybody! Our greatest genius may be the ability to prime the healing and evolutionary circuits of one another. 22 It is an art form that has yet to be learned, for it is based on something never before fully recognized — deep psychological reciprocity, the art and science of mutual transformation. And all the gurus and masters, all the prophets, profs, and professionals, can do little for us compared to what we could do for each other if we would but be present to the fullness of each other. For there is no answer to anyone’s anguished cry of “Why am I here, why am I at all?” except the reply, “Because I am here, because I am.” Text1 – About the author Text II Memorable Quotes About the author and the text Jean Houston, Ph.D. (1937—) has been a leading figure in the cross-cultural study of New Thought spirituality and ritual processes. A prolific author of books, her PBS Special A Passion for the Possible has been widely viewed. off-Broadway (Paragraph 1) Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of plays, m