Read when you are young, make money when you grow up, and be busy for your children and grandchildren when you are old.

After chasing again and again, we may win, but sometimes looking back, we always feel empty inside.

People always have to experience wind and rain to understand that the richness of life has nothing to do with the pursuit of fame and fortune, and that kind of enrichment and satisfaction comes from the cultivation of the soul.

Insight into life is inseparable from three words: quietness, interest and knowledge, so that we can see ourselves, all beings and the world clearly.

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See yourself in silence

Zeng Guofan once said: "If you are calm, you will observe the essence and save effort in treating diseases."

This means that a peaceful mind can observe the essence of things and handle things with ease.

Zeng Guofan, who just stepped into his official career, was youthful and frivolous, which caused many people's dissatisfaction with him.

Until one day, his good friend Tang Jian gave him a photo with only one word "respect" on it.

Feeling the good intentions of his old friends, Zeng Guofan began to practice kung fu hard. Sure enough, not long after, his thoughts changed and his situation changed greatly.

Until later, a very important person, every time he encountered difficulties and could not make a choice, he would go to the small building alone and sit still and meditate.

In the quiet day after day, he constantly cultivates himself. Zeng Guofan experienced many great events in his life, but rarely made mistakes. After his death, he was hailed as the first perfect man in history.

Zeng Guofan wrote "Jing" into his family precepts in his later years, which shows how much he believed in Jing.

Silence not only means meditation, but also means keeping one's original heart and enduring loneliness in a complicated world.

Being strong and unyielding in suffering, not easy to achieve in wealth, not forgetting your active attitude, and calming down can make extraordinary achievements.

In ancient times, everyone's masterpieces were completed in silence. Cao Xueqin's A Dream of Red Mansions has been reviewed for ten years, with five additions and deletions. Engels spent twelve years revising Marx's manuscript.

Sitting on the bench for ten years is cold, and achievement is based on long-term loneliness.

If you can't keep your head still, even if you give up soon after you start, you will miss the fruits of success.

Haruki Murakami, the most influential writer in modern times, said: "Life should also have a basement, without lights and darkness. That's where the human soul is. I often go into this dark room and stay indoors. After a long time, there are articles coming out. "

People who keep quiet can always avoid distraction, stay out of it, and enjoy themselves.

Today, we live in a world surrounded by external sounds. We are busy every day, mechanically repeating our work, and we are lost in the sea of people. Unconsciously, our hearts are overgrown with weeds.

Sticking to one's original heart silently and having a dialogue with one's heart are even more valuable qualities in today's era.

I hope everyone can keep their initial heart, make great efforts silently, and be full of souls.

As Feng Zikai said: Don't be confused, don't be trapped in love, don't be afraid of the future, don't miss the past.

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See all beings in "fun"

Seeing all beings is a process of acceptance and tolerance, and it is also a process from ego to ego. Bored people can't come.

Because a person who is not interested is not necessarily an optimistic person about life.

Zhang Dai, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, said in Tao An Meng: "People are not addicted and can't make friends, so they are heartless; People can't make friends with people who have no shortcomings, so there is no true qi. "

People who are eager to do what they like must have a true temperament.

The ancients said that people should have good habits before they can achieve anything.

For example, Lao She, a writer, is one of the few people who live a life like a poem in modern times.

Mr. Lao She has many hobbies. He can enjoy growing flowers, enjoying paintings, going to the opera and then get carried away.

Especially for famous paintings, I am even more obsessed.

When he gave lectures in London, his salary was not high and his life was tight, but whenever he was free, he went to the painting and calligraphy market and immediately bought his favorite picture books and albums, regardless of the hardships of life.

He once said: "It is more refreshing to see a few good paintings occasionally in poverty than to eat a plate of boiled chicken!"

Lao She's life is full of hardships, but his elegance is enough to fill the emptiness and gloom of life.

When a person can have a hobby that makes him energetic, his life must be rich and full of thickness.

On the other hand, some people in our lives seem to be very successful. They have cars and houses, so they are not short of money, and their careers are thriving. However, when I associate with them, I feel bored and boring because I have no interest in life.

Bacon said in "Essays": "What kind of interest, what kind of thoughts; What kind of knowledge and insights you have, what kind of talk you have. "

A person's self-cultivation speech can also tell his taste.

He who seeks happiness in a poor life and makes his life full of wealth is great and happy.

Good-looking skins are the same, and interesting souls are one in a million.

Dust waves are rolling, I hope we can all become people with interesting souls, and we can enjoy drinking and enjoying flowers in our spare time.

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See heaven and earth in "knowledge"

Most famous bachelors in ancient times had experience in studying abroad.

They must travel around the world all their lives and learn about the customs of different places in order to broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge.

Du Fu wrote in Zhuang You Shi Hua that "I traveled in the calligraphy field on the 14th and 15th", but many years later, he still felt that "I still hold a grudge until now and can't help the poor."

Historian Sima Qian traveled twice in his youth. It was precisely because he read books without words and was full of mountains and rivers that he was able to write historical records and later became a family letter.

Scholars enjoy the scenery or go deep into the people, not only to see the landscape figures, but also to refine their temperament and open up a new pattern.

Those who take heaven and earth as the pattern are bound to be far-sighted. They can enjoy the best or suffer the worst. They can see themselves clearly and don't force things.

Knowledge is a valuable asset in life, but life is limited and experience is limited, so it is impossible to experience everything.

Besides experience, the most effective way to increase knowledge is reading.

If you read more books, the breadth and depth of your thoughts will be improved unconsciously, thus melting into your bones, blood and temperament.

She is a CCTV elder sister who knelt down for three times to interview the old translator Xu Yuanchong, and also the host of "Chinese Poetry Conference", and her poems and songs were squeezed by her hands.

Dong Qing's elegant temperament is obvious to all. She once said that reading plays a very important role in her life.

One hour before going to bed every night is Dong Qing's unshakable reading time. It has been her habit for decades not to bring any electronic products into her bedroom.

Confused, Dong Qing resolutely stopped his career and went to the United States to study.

From "Chinese Poetry Congress" to "The Reader", Dong Qing, who is eloquent, has gained waves of iron powder and won unanimous praise from everyone.

People who love reading and have knowledge can always show their talents and temperament in ordinary behavior.

Lin Yutang said: "Reading can enlighten people, remove contempt, gain new knowledge, increase knowledge and broaden their horizons."

Among them, "extensive knowledge" should be the most important. Many times, knowledge means great wisdom, and people with knowledge make people forget customs.

As San Mao said, "The books I read, even if I don't remember them, still exist, in conversation, temperament, boundless mind and profound spirit."

A person can have no talent, but he must have knowledge. A knowledgeable person can be kind to himself or humble to others in trouble.

Keeping quiet and practical in ordinary life, enriching interests and increasing knowledge is the best practice in one's life.

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The practice of life is a long process, and the enrichment of the soul requires us to constantly improve.

See yourself in silence, so as not to get lost in the hustle and bustle;

See all beings in fun so that you are not empty in poverty;

Seeing the world in knowledge will make you more awake in the sea of people.

May you and I both cross the fog of years and meet our wise and transparent selves on the other side.

After stepping on Qian Shan, looking back, I am not yesterday, and I have a clear conscience.