英语翻译The Art of living The art of living is to know when to h

英语翻译
The Art of living
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.For life is a paradox:It enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordainstheir eventual relinquishment.The rabbis put it this way:'A man comes to this world with his fist clenched,but when he dies,his hand is open.'
Surely wo ought to hold fast to life,for it is wondrous,and lfull of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God's own earth.We know that this is so,but all too often w recognize this truth only in our back-ward glance when we remember what
was and then suddenly realize that it is no more.
We remember a beauty that faded,a love that waned.But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered,that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.
A recent experience re-taught me this truth.I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days.It was not a pleasant place.
One morning,I had to have some additional tests.The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital,so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney.
As we emerged from out unit,the sunlight hit me.That's all there was to my experience,just the light of the sun.And yet how beautiful it was--how brilliant!I looked round to see whether anyone else relished the sun's golden glow.

生活的艺术
生活的艺术是知道何时应该把握、何时应该放弃.生活是一个矛盾:它不许我们拥有它的许多礼物,甚而最终把这些礼物收回 .古代犹太教教士举了这样一个例子:" 一个人来到这个世界时他的拳头是紧握的,但当他死的时候,他的手是松开着的."
的确我们应该把握生活,因为它是精采的,并且美丽充满了这个上帝拥有的世界的每个地方.我们都明白这一点,但是这些通常都只在我们的记忆里,当我们认识到这一点时却突然发现美丽的事物已经不多了.
我们记得那已褪了色的美丽,已经减少了的爱.但我们更记得当我们看不到花开时的美丽,感受不到温柔的爱时那巨大的痛苦.
最近的一次经历再次告诫了我这个事实.我由于一次严重的心脏病发作而住进医院,经过了几天精心的治疗.这不是一个宜人的地方.
一天早晨,我必须进行一些额外的测试.所需的机器位于医院对面的一个建筑内,因此我必须在轮床上被推着横跨医院的院子.
当我们来到屋子外面,阳光笼罩了我.那都是我体验过的.太阳的光.仍然那么美丽--多么温暖,多么耀眼,多么精采!我注意观察其他人是否被太阳的金色的光辉吸引,但每个人都匆忙的来来回回,大多数人的眼睛注视着地面.然后我记起了平时我是怎么做的,同样,每天对这么宏伟的事物漠不关心,对鸡毛蒜皮的小事全神贯注,有时甚而觉得那种感觉只是一种普遍现象只是一种体验而已:生活的礼物是珍贵的-- 但我们是太忽略它们了.
结束我们的荒谬的生活吧,我们要:绝不要匆忙的面对这奇迹和对生活的敬畏.虔诚的等待每个黎明的到来.拥抱每一小时.把握宝贵的每一分钟.
把握生活...但不要握得太紧以至于你无法放弃.这是生活硬币的另一面 ,矛盾的另一极:我们必须接受我们的损失,并学会如何放弃.
这不是一个容易学习的课程,特别是当我们还年轻并且认为世界掌握在我们自己手中时,认为无论怎样充满旺盛精力的我们都可以做到 .但随着生活的脚步向前迈进,我们将面对现实,慢慢地我们将明白这个事实.
在生活每个阶段我们都遭受过损失-- 并在过程中成长.只有当我们从子宫中出生并失去了它的防护时我们才开始我们的独立生活.我们进入学校进修,那么我们离开我们的母亲和父亲和我们的童年的家.我们结婚生子然后迫使他们他们离开.我们面对我们的父母和我们的配偶的死亡.我们面对自身力量的不断减弱或者不那么快的减弱.最后,当松开的手和紧握的手的寓言实现时,我们必须面对我们死亡的必然性,就像正在失去我们自己,所有这一切,都是我们经历的或者梦到的.