It means: the height of life determines the width, vision, vision, thinking and direction of life efforts.
Original text: "See a bed in the gap by light, see the center of the room by light, see the family together by light, and shine everywhere by light."
Vernacular translation:
If a person is in a dark room in the back, he can light up a bed by opening a gap to see the light; If you open a window to let him see the light, you can light up the open space in the middle of the room.
If you open a door for him, you can light up the whole room; If you go to out of the dark's room and bathe in the sun, you will find that the whole world is bright.
Extended information "silent"
The works of China's modern thinker Wei Yuan. "Ink" is taken from Wei Yuan's word "Silence", which is an ancient wooden slip, so it is titled "Jian Mo".
This book was written by Wei Yuan during the 15th to 19th year of Qing Daoguang (1835 ~ 1839) when he lived in Yangzhou "Qingyuan", which contains the author's philosophical thoughts.
Divided into two parts: blood film and knowledge film. Learning articles 14, governance articles 16, compiled into Gu Weitang Collection. In the fourth year of Guangxu (1878), Huainan Bookstore printed The Collection of Ancient Tang Wei, The Collection of Wei Silent published by the Rotary Club of Sinology in Xuantong Yuannian (1909) and The Collection of Wei Yuan published by Zhonghua Bookstore 1976.
Wei Yuan (1794.4.23-1857.3.26)
Yuan Da, Mo Shen, Mo Sheng, Hao Liangtu, Han nationality, born in Simenmen, Longhui County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province (formerly Jintan, Shaoyang County)? [ 1]? . Enlightenment thinker, politician and writer in Qing Dynasty.
He was a scholar in the second year of Daoguang (1822) and in the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang (1845). Guan Gaoyou knew the state, abandoned the official and retired in his later years, devoted himself to Buddhism and passed on his dharma name. China's first batch of intellectuals who "opened their eyes to see the world" in modern times.
Wei Yuan believed that the purpose of learning should be "to apply what he has learned", and put forward the idea of "turning decay into magic and facilitating people", and advocated learning advanced western science and technology.
And put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", which opened a new trend of understanding the world and learning from the West, and was an important symbol of China's thought from tradition to modern times.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-silence