Today we continue our report about the life and music of one of America's greatest composers, George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Today we're going to be talking about meditation and how to bring these practices into our life, to make life better and feel more connected.

今天我们来谈谈沉思冥想,以及如何在生活中具体实践，让生活更好，更有关联感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Maybe we feel guilty about some of the things that we have in our life, and that in turn limits us.

可能对生命中一些东西感到内疚，这些都会反过来限制我们。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, whatever the explanation is, we care about the overall shape and trajectory of our life.

所以，不管原因是什么，我们在乎生命的整体形状和轨道。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Quite to the contrary, it's about being fully present, fully conscious to our life and to all that's around us, realizing that we can be this calm in the center of the storm with our breath.

恰恰相反，这是要完全活在当下，完全清醒,感受我们的生活以及周围的事物，意识到我们可以如此平静,在暴风中心保持呼吸。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

My advice for our young philosopher, or for any young students is to think about the kind of life you want to live and how it can advance the values that are most important to you.

我建议这些年轻的哲学家们，也建议所有的大学生,来思考一下你真正希望的生活,想一想这种生活将如何深化,对你来说最重要的价值观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If ever there was a time and place for thinking about the facts of death and how it should influence our life, it's right now, in a class on death.

如果有时间和地点去考虑,那些死亡的事实和它如何影响我们的生活，那就是现在，在有关死亡的课上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, if it really was true then that if only we faced the facts about our mortality that we would live life rather differently, ? how could it be reasonable for us to disregard those facts?

如果这真的是真的,那么只要我们面对我们必有一死的事实,我们就会选择不同的生活，无视这些事实又怎么可能是合理的？

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