There is a stone lying alone in the deep mountain for a long time. It has a dream that one day it can fly into the sky like a bird. When it told its companions about its ideal, it immediately attracted their ridicule: "Look, what does it mean that the heart is higher than the sky?" This is it! " "What a wonderful idea!" ..... This stone ignores the gossip of its companions and still waits for the opportunity with ideals. One day, a man named Zhuangzi passed by here. Knowing that this man has extraordinary wisdom, he told Zhuangzi his ideal. Zhuangzi said: "I can help you realize your dream, but you must grow into a mountain first. This is a lot of hardships." The stone said, "I am not afraid of suffering." So the stone tried to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, the essence of nature, undertake the rain and dew of Hui Ze, and grow hard. I don't know how many years have passed, and after many storms, it has finally grown into a mountain. So, Zhuangzi recruited Dapeng to hit the mountain with his wings and shook the mountain for a while. After an earth-shattering noise, the mountain exploded and countless stones flew into the sky. At the moment of flying, the stone smiled knowingly, and finally realized the joy of flying. But soon it fell from the air and stayed where it was. Zhuangzi asked it, "Do you regret it?" "No, I don't regret. I grew into a mountain and I flew! " Si Tong said.
In fact, a person's life is like a stone, the initial beginning and the final ending are the same, but the same life is a stone, some stones have the dream of flying, and some have the ambition of Lingyun.
Why can't we have the ambition to fly like that stone? If a person sets a high goal, he must make more efforts and sweat. Even if he can't achieve his goal through hard work, he will at least go further and achieve much more than those who set low goals. Lincoln summed up his life experience and came to the conclusion that the height of the fountain in nature will not exceed its source, and what a person can finally achieve will not exceed his belief. Our ancestors told us this philosophy of life after experiencing or witnessing too many soaring or crawling! Take the law, only get it; Take the law, only get it; Take the law and get nothing.
Aim high! Top gun! Let's have a great ambition worth fighting for all our lives! Don't fly low between Artemisia selengensis, dare to compete with Kunpeng in the sky, abandon the cheap joy under the eaves of birds, and bravely fly to the sky to be baptized by wind, rain and lightning. Strive for the ideal, spread your wings and fly to the high altitude of life.
Life needs to be moved.
Hegel told a story in Philosophy of Life: When an executed young man walked to the execution ground, an old lady in the crowd suddenly said, "Look, how beautiful and charming his blond hair is!" Hearing this, the dying young man bowed deeply in the direction where the old lady was standing, and said loudly with tears, "If there were more people like you around, I might not be here today."
There is a similar story: a young man, who has completely lost confidence in life, is ready to cut his wrist and commit suicide. Before he died, he searched all his memories, trying to find a reason to live, but all he could remember was sadness. Just when he was desperate, an idea flashed through his mind: in a sketch class in primary school, he drew a tree with green branches and green leaves. The teacher walked behind him and said, "How creative!" It was this ambiguous sentence that rekindled his hope for life.
If a person always lives in the accusation, contempt and contempt of others, he will often indulge himself, even be mentally abnormal and hate others and society. And a kind encouragement full of love may lead him to the right path of life.
A compliment may change a person's life, but unfortunately, in real life, we are often too stingy to express our compliments easily, but it is easy to hurt others inadvertently. Maybe that's why the first young man got there. If everyone, like the old lady, shows a little more love when others are depressed, and sends a word of encouragement or praise, let him feel the warmth of the sunshine and let him know that he is not alone in the vast sea of people, and that someone has been watching him and walking with him, the tragedy may be avoided.
People are as clear as water.
One of my teachers is nicknamed "Qingshui Idle Man". For this nickname, some people will look forward to the meaning of literature and associate it with inaction, drifting with the flow and not seeking progress, but they don't know that life is between inaction and promising, and it also touches the great realm of personal integrity and pursuit. Confucius said, "A friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, but a friendship between villains is as sweet as a cup of tea." Like water, it is a gentleman's demeanor.
Laozi said: Good is like water. Water nourishes everything, wants nothing, and is content with riff-raff, so it is close to the realm of Tao. Life should be like water. No matter where you are, you should keep a peaceful mind, calm as an abyss, get along with others with love, speak frankly, do good things and be good at grasping opportunities.
You see, wherever the water flows, no matter how uneven the ground is and how full the water is, it remains flat. Wherever water passes, there will be traces, just like human conduct. "The water in the surging waves is clear, you can lead me." The water in the rough waves is muddy, so you can step on me. "Irrigate fertile land, trickle down with love, sneak in with the wind, and moisten things silently.
There are cold and hot seasons. In the severe winter, water turns into ice and snow, awe-inspiring and bright, like a person's loyalty. Spring thunder started, rivers burst into ice, ice and snow melted between mountains and rivers, and melted water gurgled to form a spring water, nourishing everything. Keep pace with the times, just as Confucianism said, "If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are up to it, you will help the world."
Not seeking success, only seeking success has been achieved. Because it is indisputable, the world can't compete with it. There are snobbish, inflammatory and in full swing in the world, and they are red. Compared with the character of water, these people are cold and quiet, anxious and calm, and incompatible.
The ancients didn't have mirrors. They filled a container called "sword" with water and reflected their own image. This is the origin of the word "mirror". Since water can be used as a mirror, we might as well look at ourselves with it.
The soul is high.
Philosophers say that the soul and the body, like a sharp blade and a blade, can't be separated for a moment.
The poet said that the soul is on high.
A rational, a perceptual; An abstraction, an image. Although there is no distinction between high and low, poets do not take it as their duty to explore the truth. However, the truth revealed in Soul on High is so naked that it makes people shudder.
You may be in adversity, have a humble position, have a rough life, be unknown all your life, have no future, or even suffer great misfortune like Maslova in Resurrection, but as long as you have a pure and kind heart and a noble soul, you are a real person.
On the contrary, people like Cheng are in high positions, enjoying luxury, luxury, luxury cars, beautiful houses and even worshipping, but their hearts are extremely despicable, low and dark. The soul of such a person can only be in a pigsty.
In a complex society, it is far more difficult to maintain the height of the soul than to maintain the height of the identity.
Being a man, raising the height of the soul is far more important than raising the height of the identity. Because the dignity and value of life are measured by the height of the soul.
People often use nobility to describe the soul. However, nobility is only a qualitative analysis, and height is a quantifiable indicator. It is simple, which makes it easy for us to weigh the weight; Its image makes us see heaven and hell at once; It is intuitive, which makes the pure soul look noble and makes the ugly soul feel ashamed.
Happy because of simplicity.
In today's highly competitive highway, most modern people who chase and fight hope that their lives can reach the best state of "simple happiness". But now it seems that this state of life can only be a luxury, or an inner prayer, because everyone is overwhelmed by the real life and even loses himself. The desire to pursue material wealth makes people exhausted. The hypocrisy and greed for interests brought by the commercialization of personality lead to spiritual poverty and loss. People are eager to seek the true meaning of life, to open up a pure land for the soul and spirit, and to find a quiet living harbor. Yearning for a simple and happy life: sincerity, harmony and leisure.
When it comes to simple life, people always misunderstand that they live an ascetic life, quit their well-paid jobs, abandon their apartments and cars, and have no desire. Not really. "Simplicity" is to calm the external noise and return to inner peace and true natural state. "Simple life" is a kind of unrestrained spiritual freedom; It is a detached and indifferent attitude towards life; It is a choice to make life closer to nature. Whether ordinary people or billionaires, you can also choose a simple and free life. The key is your own choices and feelings. A simple life does not mean material lack, and it is not bound by any trivial matters and nitpicking. Life should be simple but not boring, interesting and not weird, which depends on how you use your life skills to deal with the trivial things in life.
So what is happiness? Happiness comes from "simple life", which is an attitude towards life. People who are optimistic, open-minded and calm can find hidden endless fun in life at any time. Even in the dark, you can find the faint twinkling stars in the sky. Around us, we often hear voices complaining that life is unfair and unsatisfactory. They are always unable to cross the door of happiness and are troubled by depression and sadness. In fact, this can only make troubles further consume people's will and self-confidence, damage their health, have no benefits at all, and do nothing to improve their situation. The pursuit of happiness requires considerable wisdom. Many unhappy people, the source of their pain is "putting themselves in the wrong position", always living according to an unrealistic plan, always having a hard time with themselves, always feeling that they were born at the wrong time and the opportunity has not yet arrived, so they are unhappy all day. Happy people put their positions wisely, work with ease, and life is full of flavor. Because they know the art of life, know how to advance and retreat at the right time, and choose properly. Happiness lies in today, not waiting for the future. In fact, being able to do what you like every day and putting aside the vanity of appearance will bring happiness and happiness.
Simple as a bird soaring in the ethereal blue sky, flying freely; Happiness is like an inexhaustible spring, singing all the way. Simplicity and happiness make people's soul quiet, people's energy recover, and virtue is more fragrant. Simple happiness nourishes our spirit and mood. We love a simple and meaningful life, and we hope that happiness will always accompany everyone. From now on, let's live as simply and happily as possible! (
Life has no draft.
I practiced calligraphy as a child. At first, I wrote with waste paper. I have studied for a long time, but I have never made great progress. A friend of my father's calligrapher said to my father, "If you let your child write with the best paper, he may write better." Father asked me to do what my calligrapher friend said. Sure enough, my calligraphy made rapid progress soon. Father was surprised and asked the calligrapher's friend. He just laughed and didn't answer. He just wrote a word "forced" on the paper. My father suddenly realized: this made me force myself to write well, because I cherish paper.
Indeed, ordinary days are always regarded as worthless "waste paper" inadvertently, and we don't feel bad when they are smeared. We always think that there will be a lot of plain "waste paper" in the future. In fact, this mentality may make us miss opportunities every day.
I remember a proverb: "If you want to cross the river, please throw your hat over first." Because your hat is already there, you have no choice but to cross the river by all means. It is with "coercion" that people will try their best to exert their potential. So is the so-called "death and afterlife" by military strategists.
Life is not an exercise, but a real battle. Life will not give us the time and opportunity to "draft". The "draft" written by people inadvertently or wholeheartedly will become an unchangeable answer sheet in life.