Reading for Life is a famous work written by American Will Schwalbe. The first impression is a sentence on the cover: "People who can't read only live once, and those who can read live a thousand times". Without reading, just reading these words forces people to swear to be a "person who loves reading."
When I opened the title page of the book, a conspicuous word jumped into my eyes again. "I lived a thousand times before I died, and those who didn't study only lived once." It seems to remind myself to read more books.
When reading this book, I feel that each chapter is a daily story, full of leisure and lightness. Sometimes it feels like telling trivial things in life, and sometimes I can't tell what style it is. But after repeated reading, I seem to find the taste of philosophy between the lines.
The second feature of this book is that it consists of 26 books and themes, and the title of each article is in the form of "title+theme". After reading this book, I have an impulse to buy every book mentioned in the book and read it carefully.
The third feature is that Lin Yutang's The Art of Life runs through the whole book, advocating that people should slow down and enjoy life, books and reading. But in the final analysis, this is a call for reason and passion.
0 1. The art of living-slow down.
The author put Lin Yutang's The Art of Life in the first article, and he took this book as his mentor, which runs through the book. Of course, I am proud and excited to see Lin Yutang's name. Because he is from China, the United States and China, the book written by him can put China's book at the forefront, which shows the value of this book and its influence on the author.
The art of living-slow down, vindicate the simple life and eat and drink, and do not encourage the struggle for more things and desires. Lin Yutang wanted to find an antidote to the wild competition and crazy actions around him in 1930s, not only in China where he was born and raised, but also in France and Germany where he worked, and in the United States where he lived when he was studying and writing this book when he was young. Lin Yutang is eager to tell people how to enjoy life. In his book, in addition to general knowledge, he also used the ancient culture of China to illustrate the importance of enjoying life.
The Art of Living was a great success in the 1930s. This book was later translated into many languages, and almost everyone in the world has a copy. He also became one of the best-selling writers of that era.
Lin Yutang described his book like this: "This is my personal portrayal, my personal life and thoughts."
He claimed to have stated the views of China and China, that is, a leisure philosophy and knowledge he expressed originated from a leisure life different from the present era. This is the wisdom gathered by China scholars, poets and artists for thousands of years. He tried to inspire readers to live a leisurely life, pay attention to meditation and friendship, like drinking tea, love reading and be close to nature.
Can I recognize these "antidote"?
If you think about it carefully, you can do it, for example, after work, sleep in bed and meditate-empty your spiritual world; Close your eyes and meditate in the morning-plan, think and review what to do; You can listen to music even when you walk-relax your walking feet.
"The Art of Living" taught me that life should be easy and the efficiency of doing things should be improved. Living a leisurely life in your spare time is the best enjoyment of life!
02. Odyssey-Accepting Mediocrity
In this article, the author explains mediocrity in this way: "Mediocrity does not mean stupidity, shoddy or vulgarity. Just ordinary. There is nothing wrong with being ordinary, and there is nothing wrong with it. When you accept mediocrity, you will become humble. You have learned to accept the fact that no matter how good you are at something, there may be people in the world who are more talented than you. You can try to learn from people who do better, or at least appreciate them-even if you don't want to be them. "
The author wrote the Odyssey, a heroic figure. He is resourceful, tenacious and strong. At the same time, Odyssey is also a mediocre person, greedy, proud and poor in judgment, so he made many inappropriate choices.
In fact, everyone has two sides like this. We should accept it bravely. Especially bravely accept mediocrity. But the reality is that we are afraid of mediocrity, of being unknown when we are alive, and of being forgotten soon after we die.
The author advised us and himself to live calmly and diligently in mediocrity. Accepting mediocrity is not only an attitude towards life, but also a kind of wisdom.
03. Miracle-Choose Kindness
Miracle, written by R.J. Palacio, tells the story of a little boy who is about to enter the fifth grade of primary school. This book urges the author to become a better person.
This book helps us to think about how we might behave when faced with the same situation and thinking from different angles.
Most of the wisdom in the book comes from Auggie's teacher, Mr. Brownie. He is used to sharing proverbs with the students in his class to help them learn how to deal with the challenges and difficulties in life. However, the most important lesson of this school year was brought by the headmaster, Mr. Tasman, in the opening speech of middle school. His teaching to students is simple, but arduous: choose kindness.
As social people, we should not only be kind, but also choose kindness!
The popularity of miracles spreads in the most magical way: word of mouth. Readers, booksellers and librarians have all started to recommend this book to others. The school began to introduce it into the curriculum, and this book has become a book that people in the whole community will read together. In other words, it looks forward to a possibility so strongly that people begin to reflect on themselves and apply it to life and social relations. Today, it is becoming one of the most popular children's books in history.
The Challenge of Miracles After reading this book, we actually want to think about whether we are choosing kindness and trying to challenge ourselves to live more kindly.
04. The gift of the sea-forgive yourself.
The gift of the sea is Annie? Moro? Lindbergh's classic novel is a meditation record about thinking and meditation, which was created by the author during his stay in Florida beach and for a period of time thereafter.
Every chapter of this book is inspired by the different shells found by the author at the seaside. This book contains Lindbergh's thoughts on women, environment, maternal love, marriage, work, love and independence, as well as how we should manage our time and our broader thinking about life. Her words are addressed to other women, but most of the suggestions are suitable for everyone who is trying to find a balance in life.
The first gift of the sea is a conch shell with grooves. She was moved by the simplicity, nudity and beauty of this shell. Her shell is completely different. Therefore, her solution is to choose the unknown rather than the familiar, because "the unknown and all the disappointments and surprises it brings are the most valuable."
Finally, the author of the book said that it is very difficult to get rid of everything that can no longer bring you happiness, and it is even more difficult to give up emotional and spiritual clutter.
So at the end of the book, I wrote: When we realize this problem, we can be lenient with ourselves.
05. Butterfly Dream-Betrayal
The author wrote a story about himself and his friend Terry, which led to the butterfly dream and the betrayal of human nature.
The novel Butterfly Dream is dominated by jealousy and full of dangerous romance full of resentment and deception.
The most profound role in the book is the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who is the destroyer of this book. She spared no effort to destroy the second Mrs. derwent and devoted herself to the memory of the first Mrs. derwent and Rebecca, the topic protagonist. Mrs. Danfoss is a vicious existence, and she plunders the anxiety of the protagonist. An important scene is related to the skirt-Mrs. Danfoss suggested that the naive and credulous derwent's second lady wear a skirt to attend the masquerade, and the housekeeper knew that this skirt would irritate Maxim? Derwent. Because these skirts remind him of his first wife who died a year ago.
There is no doubt that the author's friend Terry likes a book about skirts immediately becoming clothes and weapons. The loneliness written in this book also influenced his favorite book Terry, which helped him polish his more angular character and made him look forward to the days he missed so much in his life.
The author thought of Terry, but couldn't think of anything to read to Terry. I just hope to be nice to him at that time. However, Terry has passed away.
Everything in Reading for Life is accompanied by the author's will? Schwabe's Little Things.
The author said: "The best gift for others is a book. But I won't say it now. I think books are the second best gift. I believe that the best gift you can give others is to take the time to discuss with them a good book that you have shared. A book is a good gift, but it is better to give others your interest and attention! "
That is, reading makes people take a breath in indifferent technology. Reading is a way of resetting and charging, an escape way and a way of participation, because reading can stimulate more sense of participation.
Books play an important role in the world's great civilization and human rights actions, so reading brings responsibility.
Reading is one of the happiest things in the world, breaking the narrowness and ideological control and domination.
Reading reminds us to make progress and think deeply about life. We should study for life, and study for life!
That's why there is such a wise saying that "those who study live a thousand times, those who don't study only live once"!
I would like to live in the present and be a scholar who has lived thousands of times!
Qi's "28-day writing growth camp" has 3092 words in Chapter 5.