晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 75 The Bread of Life
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.54]Passage 75 The Bread of Life[00:05.14]There are lives that have bread in abundance and yet are starved; [00:10.50]with barns and warehouses filled, with shelves and larders laden they are empty and hungry. [00:18.38]No man need envy them; their feverish, restless whirl in the dust of publicity [00:25.60]is but the search for a satisfaction never to be found in things. [00:31.18]They are called rich in a world where no others are more truly, pitiably poor; [00:38.40]having all, they are yet lacking in all because they have neglected the things within. [00:45.40]The abundance of bread is the cause of many a man's deeper hunger. [00:51.85]Having known nothing of the discipline that develops life's hidden sources of satisfaction, [00:58.53]nothing of the struggle in which deep calls unto deep and the true life finds itself, [01:05.75]he spends his days seeking to satisfy his soul with furniture, [01:10.89]with houses and lands, with yachts and merchandise, seeking to feed his heart on things, [01:19.54]a process of less promise and reason than feeding a snapping turtle on thoughts. [01:26.65]It takes many of us altogether too long to learn [01:31.46]that you cannot find satisfaction so long as you leave the soul out of your reckoning. [01:37.92]If the heart be empty the life cannot be filled. [01:42.63]The flow must cease at the faucet if the fountains go dry. [01:47.76]The prime, the elemental necessities of our being are for the life rather than the body, [01:55.20]its house. But, alas, how often out of the marble edifice issues the poor emaciated inmate, [02:04.39]how out of the life having many things comes that which amounts to nothing. [02:11.18]The essential things are not often those which most readily strike our blunt senses. [02:17.85]We see the shell first. [02:20.70]To the undeveloped mind the material is all there is. [02:25.84]But looking deeper into life there comes an awakening to the fact [02:31.31]and the significance of the spiritual, [02:34.81]the feeling that the reason, the emotions, the joys and pains [02:41.48]that have nothing to do with things, the ties that knit one to the infinite, [02:47.40]all of which constitute the permanent elements of life. |
