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心灵寄语
平和是一种境界，心胸狭窄之人难以体会；平和是一种智慧，它能让我们笑对人生，忘却烦忧。“不以物喜，不以己悲”或许就是平和心态的最佳诠释。
When the moon is fullest it begins to wane1，when it is darkest it begins to grow.
There is a calm wisdom in this old saying that impressed me when I heard it first from a monk of a Buddhist monastery2 in
China. It has often， helped me to retain a good measure of equanimity3 under stress and hardship as well as when some unexpected success or good luck might have made me too exuberant4. There is hope and consolation5 in the sure knowledge that even the darkest hours of pains and troubles won"t last， but also a warning against overrating6 the passing glories of wealth， power and great good fortune. A warning and a hope， not only for the individual， but also for governments， nations and their leaders， a brief summing up of all that history and human experience can tell us. And beyond all that， we might hear in it an echo of law and order that holds our universe in safe balance.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness， and the word happy would lose its meaning if it was not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
佚名
月盈则亏，月晦则明。
这句古语里所蕴含的能让人静下心来的哲理给我留下了深刻的印象。我第一次听到这句话是在中国的佛教寺院，是其中的一位和尚告诉我的。每当我遇到压力和困难，或者当我遇到始料未及的成功或好运而得意忘形时，想起这句话，就能使我立刻静下心来，保持一种平和的心态。这句话告诉我们，不论是多么黑暗和痛苦的时刻，都不可能永远持续下去，希望和宽慰就在前方。同时这句话也提醒了我们，不必在意财富、权力或鸿运当头的光环，那些都只不过是过眼云烟。这句话里所蕴涵的希望和警示，是整个历史和人类经验的结晶，它不仅适用于个人，也适用于政府、国家和政治领袖。此外，这句话还是使整个宇宙保持平衡状态的法则。
一切都将逐步发生，如期而至。
即便是幸福的生活也难免会有一些不愉快的阴影，如果幸福不是以悲伤作对比，那么“幸福”便失去了其意义。因此处理事情时若能富有耐心、心平气和会更好些。
词汇空间 ocabulary
1.wane v.（月）亏，缺
2.monastery n. 隐修院，修道院
3.equanimity n. 平静，沉着
4.exuberant adv. 兴高采烈地，活跃地
5.consolation n. 安慰，慰问
6.overrate v. 高估
妙语拾珠
1.When the moon is fullest it begins to wane1，when it is darkest it begins to grow.
月盈则亏，月晦则明。
2.It has often， helped me to retain a good measure of equanimity under stress and hardship as well as when some unexpected success or good luck might have made me too exuberant.
每当我遇到压力和困难，或者当我遇到始料未及的成功或好运而得意忘形时，想起这句话，就能使我立刻静下心来，保持一种平和的心态。
3.There is hope and consolation in the sure knowledge that even the darkest hours of pains and troubles won"t last.
不论是多么黑暗和痛苦的时刻，都不可能永远持续下去，希望和宽慰就在前方。