散文 5  How to Grow Happiness 種植幸福的三個步驟 下載音訊

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Step one:

Plant yourself deep in a bed of faith, and pack it down solid and tight. Drench daily with positive thinking, and keep saturated just right. Mulch often with forgivenss, for this will help you grow. Quickly remove any seeds of worry, for they will soon germinate, and keep out the weeds of despair. Nourish disappointments with hope whenever it is neeeded, and always stay cool and shaded when you feel irritated or heated. Trim away guilt or depression, for they create decay, and cultivate with happy memories as often as every day.

步驟一：

把自己緊緊牢牢地埋在“信念”的土壤裡。每天澆灌以“積極”的思想，並始終保持濕潤。經常以“寬容”來護根，這樣有利於幸福的幼苗成長。一旦發現憂慮的種子，及時除掉，否則它們很快就生根發芽，同時也將絕望消滅在萌芽狀態。在必要時，用希望來滋養失望；煩躁不安的時候，保持冷靜。修剪枝葉，修剪去愧疚和沮喪，否則很快出現衰枝敗葉。每天用“幸福回憶”細心照料幼苗。

Step two:

Harvest the lessons of the past; just dig, pick, and hoe. And nurture the roots of the present, for now is when you flourish and grow. Start planting for the future; set your goals in a row. Spade the bed well for all your dreams to grow.

步驟二：

挖掘、收割、篩選，從“過往”收穫經驗。精心照料“此時此刻”的根莖，因為這正是旺盛生長的時期。有所計畫與目標，著手種植“明天”。翻掘一下泥土，為孕育明天的夢想做好準備。

Step three:

Remember that grief is a natural predator, so learn to tolerate some damage. Protect your garden with daily prayers, for this will help you manage. Bury the criticism and complaining, for they are injurious pests. Sow the seed of love wherever you may go--for joy, love, and laughter are surely bound to grow. Although the thorns of life may be here to stay, just sprout a smile along the way...and be thankful for what you have today!

步驟三：

記住，“不幸”是天生的肉食動物，明白它們帶來的傷害在所難免，你就會對不完美多一份理解和寬容。每天“祈禱”，保護你的花園，這有利於掌控。將“批評”與“埋怨”這些害蟲掩埋起來。將“愛”的種子播散到你足跡所至的每個角落，“歡樂”、“愛”和“微笑”就會生機無限地發育成長。哪怕生命“荊棘”滿途，也要在一旁種上微笑的芽苗……不管一切如何，為今天你所擁有的全部心存感激吧！

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散文 4  May You Always Have Positive Thoughts 願你的思想永遠充滿陽光

願你生命中的每一天都對未來充滿新的希望，因為有了希望，我們才有追求。

願激情、歡愉和期待的美好感覺成為你每一天的主旋律！

願你的思想永遠都充滿陽光！

May every day of your life bring you fresh hopes for tomorrow---because hopes give us all our reason for trying.

May each new day bring a feeling of excitement, joy, and a wonderful sense of expectation. Expect the best, and you'll get it

May you find peace in simple things, because those are the ones that will always be there.

May you remember the good times and forget the sorrow and pain, for the good times will remind you of how special your life has been.

May you always feel secure and loved, and know you are the best.

May you experience all the good things in life---the happiness of realizing your dreams, the joy of feeling worthwhile, and the satisfaction of knowing you've succeeded.

May you find warmth in others, expressions of love and kindness, smiles that encourage you, and friends who are loyal and honest.

May you realize the importance of patience and accept others for what they are. With understanding and love, you'll find the good in every heart.

May you have faith in others and the ability to be vulnerable. Open your heart and really share the miracle of love and intimacy.

You’re listening to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I’m Faith. Above all, may you always have positive thoughts.

願你生命中的每一天都對未來充滿新的希望，因為有了希望，我們才有追求。

願激情、歡愉和期待的美好感覺成為你每一天的主旋律。追求完美，你終將如願以償。

願你在平凡小事中覓得平和心境，它們呈現出生活最真實的面目。

願你銘記甜美幸福的時刻，讓悲傷和痛苦煙消雲散。對美好生活的回憶能讓你體會到生命的特殊含義。

願你時時擁有安全和被愛的感覺。要知道，你是最棒的。

願你體會到生活賜予的所有美好感覺，美夢成真的快樂，努力有所值的歡欣，以及成功的滿足。

願你能感受人們的溫情、愛心與善良，看到他們沁人心脾的微笑，也交到忠誠正直的朋友。

願你意識到忍耐的重要，接受別人的優缺點。理解和愛能讓你看到他們每個人都有閃光的一面。

願你懷抱對他人的信心，不怕接受責難。敞開你的心扉，親密無間的愛能不可思議地創造奇跡。

您正在收聽的是Faith輕鬆電臺，我是Faith。最重要的是，願你的思想永遠都充滿陽光。

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! With each new circumstance that comes your way, another opportunity presents itself to nourish your soul.

當你的生活中充滿著一種渴望，想去看到每一天的美麗，那麼美妙的事情就會出現：平凡的生活變得非凡，真實的生活開始滋潤你的靈魂！隨著每一個新的生活起點，另一個機會展現在你的面前，並再次滋潤你的靈魂。

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散文 3  Let's Relax Right Now 現在就開始放鬆

當你在特別興奮的日日夜夜裡時，或當我們長期地處於緊張地工作中時，你會很難想起去放鬆一下。現在，就讓我們開始放鬆，慢慢地吸氣，再慢慢地呼氣，當你呼氣時，感覺到壓力正從你體內被釋放出去。緊張和壓力伴隨著你呼出的氣從你身體和思想中飄出……

Hi, welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax. I’m Faith.

It's very easy to forget to relax during our hectic days and nights, during the time when we're constantly trying to get things done. So many of us are spending so much time on our jobs and our extra tasks in life that we tend to forget to slow down and reassess what we're doing and why.

So take a deep, slow breath. No, really--go ahead. Take a deep, slow breath, taking in as much air as you can as slowly as you can. Feel your lungs fill, and then hold the breath for five to ten seconds.

Let your breath out slowly, feeling the stress leave your body as you exhale. The hurry and the stress can ride out of your body and mind in the air that you breathe out, and if you can allow your mind to focus on the breathing, you can slow down those thoughts that are running around in your mind at about a million miles an hour.

Take in another deep breath, slowly and surely. Hold it for five to ten seconds, and then exhale slowly…slowly…slowly…

There are many important things in your life that you need to take care of, but if you take the time to relax and treat yourself well, you will find that these few minutes of relaxation can provide a huge benefit for you.

So take another deep breath, very slowly, and hold it in. Release it slowly and feel the tension leave your body with the air. If you do this ten to fifteen times, you'll find yourself feeling energized, relaxed, and in a more positive state of mind.

歡迎收聽Faith輕鬆電臺，我是Faith。

當你在特別興奮的日日夜夜裡時，或當我們長期地處於緊張地工作中時，你會很難想起去放鬆一下。我們中的許多人把生命中的大部分時間都分配到工作，任務中去，以至於總是忘記了暫時放慢一下腳步，去想一想我們正在做的事情，並問一問自己為什麼。

現在，做一下深呼吸。不，真正的深呼吸，快來吧。深深地，慢慢地呼吸，儘量慢，儘量吸入更多的空氣。感覺到你的肺部被空氣充滿，屏住呼吸5到10秒。

慢慢地釋放空氣，當你呼氣時，感覺到壓力正從你體內被釋放出去。緊張和壓力伴隨著你呼出的空氣從你身體和思想中飄出，如果你能集中精神做深呼吸，你就可以將纏繞在你腦中的凡塵瑣事拋到九霄雲外。

做第二次深呼吸，慢慢地，實在地。屏住呼吸5到10秒，慢慢地呼氣，慢慢地…慢慢地…慢慢地…

你的生活中有太多重要的事情需要你去料理，但是如果你靜下心來放鬆，好好地對待自己，你會發現這幾分鐘的放鬆可以為你帶來巨大的收益。

再做一次深呼吸，非常緩慢地，屏住它。慢地釋放它，感覺到壓力正隨著空氣飄出你的身體。 反復做10至15次，你會發現你自己神清氣爽，並且心境更健康。

Learning to relax is the greatest gift we can give ourselves, the benefits of taking a few minutes of our busy day to relax are many, relaxation brings us peace of mind, a calm emotional state of being, improved health, increased energy, and far less stress held within the body.

學會放鬆是我們能給予自己的最好的禮物，從我們的日常忙碌中抽幾分鐘放鬆一下，能有很多益處，放鬆帶給我們平和的心淨，冷靜的心態，健康的身心，充足的精力，釋放我們體內的壓力。

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散文 2  Spring Is Here 春天來了

今天，仰望藍天，聆聽小草在腳下生長，呼吸春天的氣息，細細品嘗大地的果實，然後放開雙手擁抱你的所愛。讓上帝喚醒你那神聖的知覺。

Welcome to Spring at Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I’m Faith.

Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions.

What a miracle it is. No matter how long the winter, how hard the frost or how deep the snow, Nature triumphs. No season is awaited so eagerly or welcomed so warmly as spring…Each year I am astonished by the wealth of flowers the season gives us: the subtlety of the wild primroses and violets, the rich palette of crocus in the parks, tall soldier tulips and proud trumpeting daffodils and narcissi.

Picture this: The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of blue sky in it.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

歡迎來到faith輕鬆電臺的春天。我是Faith.

今天，仰望藍天，聆聽小草在腳下生長，呼吸春天的氣息，細細品嘗大地的果實，然後放開雙手擁抱你的所愛。讓上帝喚醒你那神聖的知覺。

這真是一個奇跡！無論冬天多麼漫長，無論霜雪多麼嚴寒，自然總能獲勝。沒有哪個季節像春天那麼讓人翹首企盼……每年春花的爛漫總讓我驚訝不已：野生報春花和紫羅蘭的嬌嫩，公園裡藏紅花的多彩，還有高大的鬱金香和傲然的水仙花。

想像這樣一幅圖景：溫暖的春風彌漫著泥土的氣息，陽光照射著每一寸土壤，土壤把陽光染成深紅色。空氣中滲透著泥土的清香，腳下的小草與頭上的藍天遙相呼應。

每個春天都是獨一無二的，是自然界永恆的奇跡。

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

在春天這個季節裡，當天朗氣清的時候，

如果不到室外觀賞大自然的豐饒，並分享

天地的喜悅，就是對它的一種傷害和褻瀆。

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散文 1  The History Significance of American Revolution

The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the expression of one intellectual or social movement; yet the historical process which culminated in the ascent of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency can be regarded as the outstanding example not only of the birth of a new way of life but of nationalism as a new way of life. The American Revolution represents the link between the seventeenth century, in which modern England became conscious of itself, and the awakening of modern Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. It may seem strange that the march of history should have had to cross the Atlantic Ocean, but only in the North American colonies could a struggle for civic liberty lead also to the foundation of a new nation. Here, in the popular rising against a “tyrannical” government, the fruits were more than the securing of a freer constitution. They included the growth of a nation born in liberty by the will of the people, not from the roots of common descent, a geographic entity, or the ambitions of king or dynasty. With the American nation, for the first time, a nation was born, not in the dim past of history but before the eyes of the whole world.

美國革命的歷史意義

歷史的進程是如此錯綜複雜，人類行為的動機是如此令人費解，以至於想把那些時間跨度大，涉及人數多，空間範圍廣的事件描述成為一個智者或一場社會運動的表現的企圖是危險的。

然而以湯瑪斯•傑弗遜登上總統寶座為高潮的那一段歷史過程可以被視為一個特殊的例子。

在這段歷史時期裡不僅誕生了新的生活方式，而且民族主義成為了一種新的生活方式。美國獨立戰爭成為聯結17世紀現代英格蘭的自我意識和18世紀末現代歐洲的覺醒的紐帶。歷史的行程需要跨越大西洋，這看起來似乎有些奇怪，但卻只有在北美殖民地為民權和自由的鬥爭才能導致新國家的建立。

這裡，反對"暴政"的民眾起義的成果不僅是獲得一個包含更多自由的憲法，還包括了一個依照人民的意願誕生在自由中的國家的成長。這個國家不是基於血緣、地理、君主或王朝的野心。由於有了美國，第一次一個國家的誕生不是發生在歷史模糊的過去，而是在全世界人們的眼前。

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