7. Those who still linger on the entrance of life, hesitating to choose the bright road, remember that when years are passed and your feet stumble on the dark mountains, you will cry bitterly, but in vain: “Oh youth, return! Oh give me back my early days!”
1. 除夕之夜，一位老人伫立窗前。他满眼哀伤，仰望着深蓝色的天空，那儿，星星如清澈平静的湖面上的朵朵白莲在漂移着。后来，他将目光投向地面，几个比他更加绝望的人正在走向人生的终点——坟墓。在通往人生终点的道路上，他已走过了60多个驿站，除了过失和悔恨，他一无所获。现在，他健康欠佳，精神空虚，心情忧郁，缺少晚年应有的舒适和安逸。
2. 青春的岁月如梦幻般浮现在他眼前，他回想起父亲将他放在人生岔路口上的关键时刻，当时，他面前有两条路：一条通向和平宁静、阳光灿烂的地方，那里到处是花果，到处回荡着柔和甜美的歌声；另一条则通向黑暗无底的深渊，那里流淌着毒液而不是清水，恶魔肆虐，毒蛇嘶嘶爬动。
3. 他仰望天空，痛苦地哭喊：“哦，青春，你回来吧！哦，爸爸，请把我重新放到人生的路口上吧，我会做出更好的选择。”然而他的父亲和他的青春年华皆离他远去。
4. 他看见灯消逝在黑暗中，那便是他虚度的时光；他看见一颗星星从空中陨落、消失，那是他自身的象征。悔恨如同一支利箭，深深地刺进他的心。接着，他想起童年时代的朋友，他们曾与他一同踏上人生的旅程，现已获得成功，受到人们的尊敬，此刻正在幸福中欢度除夕。
5. 教堂塔顶的钟声响了，使他回忆起父母早年对他的爱，他们曾给予他谆谆教诲，曾为他的幸福祈祷上帝。可他偏偏选择人生的歧途。羞愧和忧伤使他再也不敢正视他父亲所在的天堂。他双眼黯然无光，饱噙着泪水，在绝望中，他拼力高喊：“回来吧，我那逝去的年华！回来吧！”
6. 青春真的回来了，因为以上所发生的一切只是他在除夕所做的一场梦。他仍旧年轻，当然他真的犯有过失，但还未堕入深渊，他仍然可以自由地走上通向宁静和光明的道路。
7. 在人生路口徘徊，不知该不该选择光明大道的年轻人啊，你们千万要记住：当你青春已逝，双足在黑暗的群山中举步维艰，跌跌撞撞之时，你才痛心疾首地呼唤：“哦，回来吧、青春！哦，把我的美好年华还给我！”，这只会是徒劳无益的。
The Practice Of Peace心静如水
1. There are many areas in which peace needs to be accomplished—within ourselves, between ourselves and others, and between ourselves and the divine. When any part is out of balance, a lasting peace cannot be maintained.
2. A state of peace does not grow out of a false sense of safety, but out of understanding how to interact with the forces we are subjected to. Rather than reacting automatically, we must learn how to best respond.
3. Automatic, habitual reactions lead us and others into blind alleys. Responding, on the other hand, includes response-ability, the power to see things as they are, stay balanced and make an appropriate response. This is the action of seeking peace.
4. Many may not be aware of the enormous power their choices and actions have upon their lives and the lives of others. It has been said that even a small amount of real love has the power to dissolve mountains of hate. The wonder is why we are so stingy with our good will, why we hold onto thoughts of hatred and revenge.
5. Seeing this is the first step. Letting go comes next.
6. Rather than pretending to be loving and peaceful, we must learn how to actively work with all that opposes peace. We must learn how to work with our fear and anger when it arises. Even in the midst of anger we can be peaceful, if we learn how to handle it properly. In this way we pursue and practice peace.
1. 要想达到心静如水的心境需要从众多方面入手：从我们的内心，我们和他人之间的关系，以及我们和我们内心之间的关系。当任何一方失去平衡，都不能维持一种持久的平静心境。
2. 一种平静的心境并不来自于一种错觉的安全感，而是来自于对如何应对我们周遭事物的理解。不要去机械地应对，相反，我们必须学着去以最好的方式应对事物。
3. 机械的，习惯性的反应会将我们带入一个狭窄的盲区。而相反，理智的反应，包括反应能力，却是一种能看透事物本质的能力。保持各方面的平衡，并做出适当的反应，这才是追求心境如水的本质行为。
4. 很多人可能并没有意识到他们的选择和行动对他们自己的生活以及他人生活的巨大影响力。人们曾说哪怕是一点点真爱都会有着化解一座冰山的力量。既然如此，那么我们为什么还要如此吝啬我们的善意，为什么还要紧紧抓住仇恨和复仇的思想不放手。
5. 认识到这一点是第一步，学会释怀就是第二步。
6. 不要强装爱与平静，相反，我们必需积极地学会应付各类对平静的干扰。我们必需学会当恐惧与愤怒滋长时如何去理智地应付。如果我们学会如何适当地应付，即使在愤怒进行时，我们也可以平静下来。这样，我们就能够真正地做到心静如水。
These Things I Wish For You爷爷的期望
1. We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I d know better.
2. I’d really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover meatloaf. I really would.
3. My cherished grandson, I hope you learn humility by surviving failure and that you learn to be honest even when no one is looking.
4. I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car—and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
5. It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born, and you have a good friend to be with you if you ever have to put your old dog to sleep.
6. I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
7. I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it is all right to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he’s scared, I hope you’ll let him.
8. And when you want to see a Disney movie and your kid brother wants to tag along, I hope you take him.
9. I hope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
10. If you want a slingshot, I hope your father teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books, and when you learn to use computers, you also learn how to add and subtract in your head.
11. I hope you get razzed by friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.
12. May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
13. I hope you get sick when someone blows smoke in your face. I don t care if you try beer once, but I hope you won t like it. And if a friend offers you a joint or any drugs, I hope you are smart enough to realize that person is not your friend.
14. I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa or go fishing with your uncle.
15. I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor s window, and that she hugs you and kisses you when you give her a plaster of pared mold of your hand.
16. These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.
1. 我们竭尽全力想让我们的儿女们过得更好，而结果却是适得其反。对我的孙辈们，我就明智得多了。
2. 我真的希望他们能够了解什么是兄长传下来的旧衣服，家制的冰淇淋，以及吃剩的肉糕。我真的希望。
3. 我的宝贝孙子，我希望你在经受失败的考验之后能学会谦卑，也希望你能学会诚实，即使在没有人注视你的时候。
4. 我希望你能学会自己叠被子，自己刈草坪，自己洗车——我还希望在你满十六岁时没有人送给你一辆崭新的轿车。
5. 假如你至少有一次机会看见小牛犊出生，假如你不得不为你的老狗送终，那时有一位好朋友在场为你做伴——那样该有多好啊！
6. 我希望你能为自己的信仰与人斗得眼青脸肿。
7. 我希望你能和你弟弟共一间卧室——即使你在卧室中间划一条分界线也没关系。可是，当弟弟因为害怕而要爬进你的被窝时，我希望你会接纳他。
8. 当你要出去看迪斯尼电影，你的弟弟想做你的小尾巴时，我希望你能带上他。
9. 我希望你能和朋友们一起爬山，在你所生活的城市里做这项运动不会有什么危险。