Do you think this is just another day in your life? It’s not just another day. It’s the one day that is given to you: today.
你以为这只是你生命中的又一天？不，它不仅仅只是另外一天，它是生命赋予你的一天：今天。
It’s given to you. It’s a gift. It’s the only gift that you have right now. And the only appropriate response is gratefulness.
它被赋予了你，它是一份礼物。它也是你现在仅有的礼物，你唯一恰当的回应是感恩。
If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.
Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for our pure enjoyment. Look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather. We just think of “good weather” and “bad weather”. This day, right now, has unique weather, maybe a kind that will never exactly, in that form, come again. The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes. Look at that.
Look at the faces of people whom you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors. We all go back so far, and in this present moment, on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world flows together and meets you here, like a life-giving water, if you only open your heart and drink.
Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch, and there is electric light. You turn a faucet, and there is warm water and cold water, and drinkable water. It’s a gift that millions on the world will never experience.
So these are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which we can open your heart. And so I wish you that you will open your heart to all these blessings, and let them flow through you, that everyone whom you will meet on this day will be blessed by you, just by your eyes, by your smile, by your touch, just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you.
几年前看到这则关于感恩的TED talk视频，被震撼了一下，还特意把文末brother那段有关感恩的话翻译成中文。其实人家有中文字幕，自己重新翻译一遍，是为了让这段话刻进脑海。
这几年，有事没事，我常常抬头看看天空的云。
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Do you think this is just another day in your life? It’s not just another day. It’s the one day that is given to you: today.
你以为这只是你生命中的又一天？不，它不仅仅只是另外一天，它是生命赋予你的一天：今天。
It’s given to you. It’s a gift. It’s the only gift that you have right now. And the only appropriate response is gratefulness.
它被赋予了你，它是一份礼物。它也是你现在仅有的礼物，你唯一恰当的回应是感恩。
If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.
如果你什么都不做，只是在内心滋养对这份绝无仅有的伟大礼物的感恩，如果你学会把今天当成生命中的第一天也是最后一天来过，那么你会把这一天过得很好。
Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for our pure enjoyment. Look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather. We just think of “good weather” and “bad weather”. This day, right now, has unique weather, maybe a kind that will never exactly, in that form, come again. The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes. Look at that.
从张开你的双眼开始，为自己目能视物而惊叹，为那些不间断地让我们得到纯粹视觉享受的不可思议的色彩而惊叹吧。让我们仰望天空。我们很少能够注意到这一刻和下一刻它有多么不同，云彩来了又去。我们只是关注天气。我们甚至并不关注天气的各种细微变化之处，只是想着这是一个好天气还是一个坏天气。而这一天，这一刻，有着独一无二的天气，这种天气可能永远也不会再以同样的方式出现。天空中云彩的组合将永远不可能和此刻的组合一模一样。张开你的双眼，看看这些吧。
Look at the faces of people whom you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors. We all go back so far, and in this present moment, on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world flows together and meets you here, like a life-giving water, if you only open your heart and drink.
看看那些你遇见的人的脸庞。每一张脸的背后都有着不可思议的故事，那种你永远也不可能完全领会的故事，不仅仅是他们自己的故事，还有他们先人的故事。我们都喜欢回顾过往，而此时此刻，这一天，所有你遇见的人，那些跨越了时空与距离的生命，与你在此地汇聚，就像生命之水，只要你愿意敞开心扉痛饮它。
Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch, and there is electric light. You turn a faucet, and there is warm water and cold water, and drinkable water. It’s a gift that millions on the world will never experience.
敞开你的心扉拥抱文明带给我们的那些不可思议的礼物吧。你按一下开关，就点亮了电灯。你打开水龙头，就有了热水和冷水，还有饮用水。这些礼物，地球上数百万的人群将永远没法体验。
So these are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which we can open your heart. And so I wish you that you will open your heart to all these blessings, and let them flow through you, that everyone whom you will meet on this day will be blessed by you, just by your eyes, by your smile, by your touch, just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you.
而这些，只不过是数不清的礼物中的沧海一粟，只要我们能够好好体会。所以，我祝愿你能对所有的这些祝福敞开心扉，让它们流淌在你的身心，让你所遇见之人能得到你的祝福，用你的目光，你的微笑，你的触摸，甚至只是因了你的存在。让感恩之源汇聚成祝福，恩泽你周围的一切 。
And then, it will really be a good day.
然后，今天就将会成为真正美好的一天。
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https://www.ted.com/talks/david_steindl_rast_want_to_be_happy_be_grateful?language=en
Of your life.
那个speaker 让人想起老年的dark raider 的老师 和老年的Luke skywalker.
Jedi 风。Guru 风。
昨天看了朋友推荐的老电影 groudhog day. 如果被不停的过同一天，怎么办？那就过好这一天。哈哈
有时候，我们觉得平凡的生活太过沉闷，一定需要生场病受点折磨的才能领悟到，那些平凡平淡的每一天，已是一种祝福。
叔本华对幸福的定义就是过那种平淡得有点烦闷的生活。大家觉得他悲观，可他毕竟还是比我们聪明了不少，这些道理，我们要越老才越发领会得透。
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祈祷没有问题。太好了！后来真的没有问题，感恩！！！
感恩能生活在一个和平自由的国度。 虽然有很多不完美，但是真的很感恩。
上文在这段视频中。演讲者在结尾处（视频第四分钟开始）引用了Brother David Steindl-rast的话：
https://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude?language=en?
Brother David Steindl-rast的演讲视频：
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_steindl_rast_want_to_be_happy_be_grateful?language=en