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作为一个人,一种具备身心的有机体,我能学会如何摆脱自负,这样赋予我生命和意识的神的光芒就能驱散阴影,照亮我全身。

Learning to Get Out of the Way

In every one of the higher religions there is a strain of infinite optimism on the one hand,and on the other,of a profound pessimism.In the depths of our being,they all teach,there is an inner high--but an inner Light which our egotism keeps,for most of the time,in a state of more of less eclipse.If,however,it so desires,the ego can get out of the way,so to speak,can dis--eclipse the Light and become identified wiht its divine source.Hence the unlimited optimmism of the traditional religions.There pessinism springs from the observed fact that,though all are called,few are chosen--for the sufficient reason that few choose to be chosen.

To me,this older conception of man's nature and destiny seems more realistic,more nearly in accord with the given facts,than any form of modern utopianism.

In the Lord's Prayer we are taught to ask for the blessing which consists in not being led into temptation.The reason is only too obvious.Whe temptations are very great or unduly prolonged,most persons succumb on them.To devise a perfect social order is probably beyond our powers,but I believe that it is perfectly possible for us to reduce the number of dangerous temptations to a level far below that which is tolerated at the present time.

A society so arranged that there shall be a minimum of dangerous temptations--this is the end towards which,as a citizen,I have to strive.In my efforts to that end,I can make use of a great variety of means.Do good ends justify the use of intrinsically bad means?On the level of theory,the point can be argued indefinitely.In practice,meanwhile,I find that the means employed invariably determine the nature of the end achieved.Indeed,as Mahatma Gandhi was never tired of insisting,the means are the end in its preliminary stages.Men have put forth enoumous efforts to make their world a better place to live in;but except in regard to gadgets,plumbing and hygiene,their sussess has been pathetically small."hell,"as the proverb has it,"is paved with good intentions."And so long as we go on trying to realize our ideals by bad or merely inappropriate means,our good intentions will come to the same bad ends.In this consists the tragedy and the irony of history.

Can I,as an individual,do anything to make future history a little less tragic and less ironic than history past and present?I believe I can.As a citizen,I can use all my intelligence and all my good will to develop political means that shall be of the same kind and quality as the ideal ends which I am trying to achieve.And as a person,as a psychophysical roganism,I can learn how to get out of the way,so that the divine source of my life and consciousness can come out of eclipse and shine through me.


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devise [di'vaiz]

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vt. 设计,发明,遗赠给
n. 遗赠,

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proverb ['prɔvə:b]

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n. 谚语,格言
vt. 用谚语表达

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eclipse [i'klips]

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n. 日或月食,丧失,没落
vt. 形成日或月

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identified

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adj. 被识别的;经鉴定的;被认同者 v. 鉴定(id

 
merely ['miəli]

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adv. 仅仅,只不过

 
social ['səuʃəl]

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adj. 社会的,社交的
n. 社交聚会

 
irony ['aiərəni]

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n. 反讽,讽剌,讽剌之事

 
blessing ['blesiŋ]

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n. 祝福,祷告

 
invariably [in'vɛəriəbli]

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adv. 不变化地,一定不变地,常常地

 
temptation [temp'teiʃən]

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n. 诱惑,引诱

 

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