【全程复习方略】2014版高考英语 Passage 1 Learn to Live at the Present Moment双语美文集锦素材.docVIP

Passage 1 Learn to Live at the Present Moment To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live at the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are?always.  Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things?all at once. We allow past problems and future concerns dominate our present moments, so much so that we end up anxious, frustrated, depressed and hopeless. On the flip side, we also postpone our gratification, our stated priorities, and our happiness, often convincing that “someday” will be much better than today. Unfortunately, the same mental dynamics that tell us to look toward the future will only repeat themselves so that “someday” never actually arrives. John Lennon once said, “Life is what is happening while we are busy making other plans.” When we are busy making ‘other plans’, our children are busy growing up, the people we love are moving away and dying, our bodies are getting out of shape, and our dreams are slipping away. In short, we miss out on life.  Many people live as if life is a dress rehearsal for some later date. It isn’t. In fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. When we put our attention on the present moment, we push fear from our minds. Fear is the concern over events that might happen in the future—we won’t have enough money, our children will get into trouble, we will get old and die, whatever. 学会活在此刻我们内心是否平和在很大程度上是由我们是否能生活在所决定的不管昨天或去年发生了什么，不管明天可能发生或不发生什么，现实才是你时时刻刻所在之处毫无疑问，我们很多人掌握了一种神经兮兮的艺术，即把生活中的大部分时间花在为种种事情担心忧虑上而且常常是同时忧虑许多事情我们听凭过去的麻烦和未来的担心控制我们此时此刻的生活，以我们整日焦虑不安，靡不振，甚至沮丧绝望而另一方面我们又推迟我们的满足感，推迟我们应优先考虑的事情，推迟我们的幸福感，常常说服自己“有朝一日”会比今天更好不幸的是，如此告诫我们朝前看的大脑动力只能重复来重复去，以“有朝一日”不会真的来临约翰·列侬曾经说过：“生活就是当我们忙于制别的计划时发生