激情晨讀英語(yǔ)美文 第二章 從一粒沙看世界:培育我們的心靈
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Cultivating Our Hearts
The autumn, with its ripening fruits
and waving harvest, is now with us. We see
on every hand the results of the farmer’s toil
and forecast in the springtime. Then it was that
he broke up the soil, sowed the seed,
pruned his trees, and guarded the tender plants.
Now we see the ripening crops. The trees are
bending with golden fruit, and abundance rewards
the farmer’s toil.But suppose in spring
the farmer had left the soil unturned, the seed unsown,
the trees untrimmed, and everything neglected,
what would now be the result? We should see nothing
but barren fields, overrun with weeds and briers;
and the farmer would feel that a winter of want
and distress was before him.And let us remember
that the autumn of life will come on apace;
and that what we now sow, we shall then reap.
If we would reap an abundant harvest, and gather
precious fruit, and secure an autumn of plenty
and prosperity, we must now, in the springtime of life,
be diligent and careful in cultivation of our hearts.
We must form only those habits which will produce good fruits.
Our acts must be noble, our thoughts and our words
must be pure, and our feelings must be kind. As we now sow,
we shall then reap. If we “sow to the wind,
we shall reap the whirlwind”.