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励志美文精华:痛苦源于自身(利昂.J.索尔博士)

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许多人类的痛苦都源于人类自身,源于成年人受幼年时错误成长轨迹的影响而情感不成熟。这样的人没有能力尽责地工作,尽责地爱,而是变得贪婪自私、焦虑沮丧、满怀敌意、缺乏安全感。

Suffering Is Self-Manufactured

by Dr. Leon J. Saul


I believe the immediate purpose of life is to live - to survive. All known forms of life go through life cycles. The basic plan is: birth - maturing - mating - reproducing - death.

Thus the immediate purpose of human life is for each individual to fulfill his life cycle. This involves proper maturing into the fully developed adult of the specie.

The pine tree grows straight unless harmful influences warp it. So does the human being. It is a finding of the greatest significance that the mature man and woman have the nature and characteristics of the good spouse and parent: the ability to enjoy responsible working and loving.

If the world consisted primarily of mature persons - loving, responsible, productive, toward family, friends and the world - most of our human problems would be resolved.

But most people have suffered in childhood from influences which have warped their development. Hence, as adults they have not realized their full and proper nature. They feel something is wrong without knowing what it is. They feel inferior, frustrated, insecure, and anxious. And they react to these inner feelings just as any animal reacts to any hurt or threat: by readiness to fight or to flee. Flight carries them into alcoholism and other mental disorders. Fight impels them to crime, cruelty, war.

This readiness to violence, this inhumanity of man to man, is the basic problem of human life - for, in the form of war, it now threatens to extinguish us.

Without the fight-flight reaction, man would never have survived the cave and the jungle. But now, through social living, man has made himself relatively safe from the elements and wild beasts. He is even learning to protect himself against disease. He can produce adequate food, clothing and shelter for the present population of the earth. Barring a possible astronomical accident, he now faces no serious threat to his existence, except one - the fight-flight reaction within himself. This jungle readiness to hurt and to kill is now a vestigial hangover like the appendix, which interferes with the new and more powerful means of coping with nature through civilization. Trying to solve every problem by fighting or fleeing is the primitive method, still central for the immature child. The later method, understanding and co-operation, requires the mature capacities of the adult.

In an infantile world, fighting may be forced upon one. Then it is more effective if handled maturely for mature goals. Probably war will cease only when enough people are mature.

The basic problem is social adaptation and biologic survival. The basic solution is for people to understand the nature of their own biological emotional maturity, to work toward it, to help the children in their development toward it.

Human suffering is mostly made by man himself. It is primarily the result of the failure of adults, because of improper child-rearing, to mature emotionally. Hence instead of enjoying their capacities for responsible work and love, they are grasping, egocentric, insecure, frustrated, anxious and hostile. Maturity is the path from madness and murder to inner peace and satisfying living for each individual and for the human specie.

This I believe on the evidence of science and through personal observation and experience.


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hostile ['hɔstail]

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adj. 怀敌意的,敌对的

 
astronomical [.æstrə'nɔmikəl]

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adj. 天文学的,巨大的

 
social ['səuʃəl]

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adj. 社会的,社交的
n. 社交聚会

 
population [.pɔpju'leiʃən]

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n. 人口 ,(全体)居民,人数

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effective [i'fektiv]

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adj. 有效的,有影响的

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primitive ['primitiv]

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adj. 原始的
n. 原始人,文艺复兴前的艺

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spouse [spauz]

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n. 配偶

 
solve [sɔlv]

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v. 解决,解答

 
react [ri'ækt]

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vt. 作出反应
vi. 起反应,起作用,反攻

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inferior [in'fiəriə]

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adj. 次等的,较低的,不如的

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