Four years in college, five years of work, countless insomnia, palpitation, anxiety, fear. I can't seem to grasp everything in life. Now I am most impressed by these times:
One is the first time I quarreled with my girlfriend and said goodbye; The second time I was cheated by my friends when I graduated and faced employment; The third time is when leaders try their best to change the workplace and are invisibly banned by various excuses.
Every time, it left a deep imprint on my heart.
These three times, I felt that the world seemed very dark and boring. I circled in the dark world and couldn't see the bright hope. How I wish a hand was born out of the darkness, that hand, with glittering and translucent brilliance, and a voice said to me, hold my hand and I will take you to out of the dark.
But I didn't. I chatted with a net friend. She is ten years older than me and looks more open-minded and open. She said to me: When you are most confused, helpless, anxious and afraid of the future, just read a book.
So every time I began to question the meaning of life, I did nothing, took the books she recommended to me and began to read one by one.
Following the author's thinking, I am immersed in the world written by the author, as if every word in the book has a temperature. He slowly warmed a heart that was going to be cold. When the atrium warms up, it seems that life should have its proper temperature, and the world around it becomes quiet.
In this way, one, two, three ... I read a lot of books and gradually fell in love with reading.
As a member of the general public, we fight the devil every day. We used many ways: we took a trip and left, or we shouted at the top of our lungs at KTV, or we snuggled up in our lover's arms for comfort, or we sweated wildly in the gym. ......
However, these are all external stimuli and the effect is only temporary. We need a kind of spiritual stimulation from the inside out, and reading is undoubtedly the most cost-effective way.
This kind of books use other people's stories to touch us and let us open our inner awakening.
Among the hundreds of books I have read, there are six books about spiritual comfort, which I feel I really want to recommend to you. Let me share it. The characters in the book, like you and me, have been confused about their pursuit. When you have a similar experience, you will resonate with them and understand why they made that choice.
Therefore, when you are anxious and confused, you don't have to deliberately find a quiet place. In your most comfortable way, sitting or lying down, holding a book and starting reading will surely soothe your tumbling heart and soul.
1. The Moon and Sixpence
The writer is william somerset maugham, an English novelist and playwright.
Although this is a work close to 100 years ago, it lasts for a long time, and I think it has practical value like healing. Whether to desperately grab the unreachable moon or bow down to pick up sixpence has aroused endless thinking from generation to generation.
When I read the plot in front of this book, I didn't feel attracted, but when I read that strickland, a securities broker with a happy family and a good income in London, resolutely left his family and went to Paris to study painting and dream, I was deeply attracted and read it at one go.
While reading, I think about what I live for. I lived away from home since I was a child, studied all the way and graduated from college. First in Beijing, then in this 18th-line town. I live a life farther and farther away from my parents. I work like a machine every day and eat and sleep at a fixed time.
If only I had run as far away as Steli Rand, the protagonist in the book, to find my dream, but I didn't. I just want to support myself and let my life pass away in other places far away from my parents for the salary just enough for a normal life. I have many dreams and interests, but I don't have enough courage to yearn for poetry and distance.
However, the protagonist in the play did not get a happy ending. He came to Tahiti, a small island in the South Pacific. His paintings were not sold and not many people appreciated them, so he died of poverty and disease. But after his death, his paintings became a genius in the history of painting.
How close is it to reality? Children who give up all their dreams never realize their dreams and live the life they want in their lifetime.
Simple and profound.
Mao Mu truly described two choices in life: to live a regular, boring and peaceful life, or to follow one's inner wishes? Whichever you choose, you have to pay the corresponding price.
No matter how old you are, you should read this book.
Because as you know, the world is complex and the values are diverse. Be sure to find the one you like and go to the end.
2. Unbearable lightness of life
This is a philosophical novel and the most famous work of Milan Kundera.
This novel describes the love life between Thomas, Teresa and Salina. But not a love triangle between a man and two women. The novel begins with the discussion of "eternal reincarnation", which makes me fall into a series of thoughts on light and heavy, spirit and flesh.
There are too many things in life that seem as light as a feather, but they are actually unbearable.
What is the meaning of life! Since Deception can be so poetic, artistic and dignified, other World War II Ertle Massacre can also be forgiven by the author. What else in the world values good and evil?
This is my reflection on reading this book.
3. The Wolf in the Desert
This is an autobiographical novel written by German and Swiss Nobel Prize novelist hermann hesse.
After reading this book, I realized that there was a coyote in my heart, howling in my heart.
In fact, in the deepest part of everyone's heart, there is a wild wolf.
The protagonist in the book has experienced the process of cognition, suffering, struggle, struggle, abandonment, awakening and rebirth.
After several years of graduation, I have been exposed to various occasions, from sublime to despicable, knowing everything. Maybe I won't accept myself and the world easily. But at least I won't paint the ground as a prison again, and I will be pale and indigestion in the small cave I have painstakingly built.
People who live in the vast world should not push the world away from the beginning with a self-righteous attitude. With humor and tolerance, with the purest and most evil smile, I jumped into the ocean of the world without hesitation.
One day, like the wolves in the book, we will be heartbroken by our simple and rude classification. When we learn to walk in the dirty and vulgar downtown, we can still find the beautiful flash, our hearts will be softer and our eyes will be firmer.
4. The road that few people take
The author is Scott Peck, an American psychologist.
The book is divided into four chapters: self-discipline, love, growth and belief, and grace. From the point of view of psychologist, Scott revealed to us all kinds of hardships and setbacks that will be encountered on the road of mental maturity, and how to face them squarely.
Many dry goods in the book, such as how to overcome fear, how to overcome fear in social life, how to solve problems in getting along with family, teach readers how to maintain good mental health in a complicated life and cultivate wisdom about beauty and happiness.
The first sentence fascinated me: life is full of hardships. This is contrary to my outlook on life for more than 20 years, but it is the same as my life experience for more than 20 years. The mainstream values of society are promoting happiness, but how many people really live in the so-called happiness? Later, I realized that it is precisely because most people in this world are unhappy that so many people advocate and pursue happiness.
After reading this book, I feel like holding a cold scalpel and gouging out the carrion bit by bit.
In short, it is worth reading.
5. New World: Spiritual Awakening
By eckhart tolle.
Through his own personal experience, the author describes how the painful body controls human beings and how we can break through the cocoon from the painful body with the help of the awakening of consciousness.
It tells us how to get rid of pain: accept it. Let yourself fully feel the feeling of the moment when the pain broke out. With the coming of the awakening of all mankind, on the basis of what we have, there will be a new world-mankind will no longer agree with the concept, that is, the mind and wisdom of the ego, thus gaining real inner freedom.
Eckhart Thor used to be a teacher in a British university. Although my life is rich, I live in trouble and pain all day. Until one morning, he suddenly realized that he was bathed in light. So he resigned from his teaching post and got rid of all worldly affairs. He sat on a bench in the park every day and connected his heart with nature for two years. Later, he settled in Canada and became a famous spiritual mentor in the West.
6. The fantasy journey of the shepherd boy
The classic fable novels of the famous Brazilian writer paulo coelho.
It tells the story of a boy, Santiago, who went to the pyramids to look for treasure, because he had two identical dreams of treasure hunting.
In the book, he tells you, "At some point in life, we lose control of our lives, and fate dominates our lives". This is just a lie.
There must be dreams on the road of life, and a grain of sand also has its world;
He tells you that the happiest thing in life is now, not yesterday or the future. Seize the opportunity and don't let it slip through your fingers.
He tells you that you will always meet all kinds of people on the road of growth, so when things happen, you should be calm and analyze them carefully;
He tells you, to know the other self in your heart, don't be short-sighted, be tolerant of loneliness and loneliness, as long as you are strong and struggle, we will eventually find the treasure on the road of life.
I hope everyone can control their own life, not blindly believe in fate.
In this impetuous era, read more books and read good books.
Handsome boy, do you like it? You will look better ~ ~