音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:01.70]Thoughts on Life感悟生命
[00:03.68]Slow the pace of your life and give yourself some time for meditating.
[00:11.03]It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
[00:17.46]Making Sandcastles堆沙堡
[00:25.46]A little boy is on his knees
[00:28.87]scooping and packing the sand with plastic shovels into a bright blue bucket.
[00:34.23]Then he upends the bucket on the surface and lifts it.
[00:38.42]And, to the delight of the little architect, a castle tower is created.
[00:43.88]All afternoon he will work，scooping out the moat and packing the walls.
[00:49.58]Bottle tops will be sentries. Sticks will be bridges. A sandcastle will be built.
[00:56.61]Big city. Busy streets. Rumbling traffic.
[01:01.30]A man is in his office. At his desk he puts papers into stacks and assigns tasks.
[01:08.54]The phone is on his shoulder and he is knocking the keyboard with his fingers.
[01:13.34]Contracts are signed and much to the delight of the man, a profit is made.
[01:19.17]All his life he will work，formulating the plans, forecasting the future.
[01:24.85]Profits will be sentries. Capital gains will be bridges. An empire will be built.
[01:31.65]Two builders of two castles. They have much in common.
[01:36.37]They shape little pebbles into grand buildings. They are diligent and determined.
[01:42.38]And for both the tide will rise and the end will come.
[01:46.67]Yet that is where the similarities stop.
[01:49.95]For the boy sees the end while the man ignores it.
[01:54.45]Watch the boy as the dusk approaches.
[01:57.07]As the waves near, the wise child jumps to his feet and begins to clap.
[02:02.54]There is no sorrow. No fear. No regret. He knew this would happen.
[02:08.79]He is not surprised.
[02:10.43]And when the great breaker crashes into his castle
[02:13.93]and his masterpiece is sucked into the sea, he smiles.
[02:18.23]He smiles, picks up his tools, takes his father’s hand, and goes home.
[02:24.23]The grownup, however, is not so wise.
[02:28.30]As the wave of years collapses on his castle he is terrified.
[02:33.21]He tries to protect the sandy monument. He blocks the waves from the walls he has made.
[02:40.01]Salt-water soaked and shivering he snarls at the incoming tide.
[02:45.07]"It’s my castle," he protests.
[02:47.80]The ocean need not respond. Both know to whom the sand belongs...
[02:54.05]I don’t know much about sandcastles.
[02:56.34]But children do. Watch them and learn.
[02:59.95]Go ahead and build, but build with a child’s heart.
[03:03.81]When the sun sets and the tides take——applaud.
[03:08.29]Salute the process of life and go home.