主题英语角第57期：倾听心声 Listen to the voice of your heart

[Nick]

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主题英语角第57期：倾听心声 Listen to the voice of your heart

活动时间：2009年11月18日 周三晚19:30－21:30
活动地点：青年路（巡津街）516号盛达商务大厦 707室
昆明市第一人民医院往螺丝湾方向走200米路口处
公交车：乘59、63、90、98、107、109、112、117、161路车到巡津街站下

本次主题讨论的目的 Purpose of the topic for this time

探讨倾听心声的含义和方式
To explore the meaning and approach of listening to your heart

关于主题的一些最初的想法 Some initial thoughts about the topic

"The longest journey in the world is the journey from our head to
our heart." a friend once told me. I nodded and smiled showing
agreement. Years later, I realize I have a hard time balancing between
my head and my heart. “Don’t use your brain. Use your feelings. Listen
to your heart.” I hear those words more often now than before. But
sometimes the heart is difficult to listen to. It makes many voices:
desires, fears, expectations, worries. What does it mean to listen to
our heart? How to listen to it?

与大家一起探讨的问题:
Opening question for big group:
思考中…… Upcoming… (欢迎建议，give us your idea too!)
Step by step questions for small group discussion:
思考中…… Upcoming…（欢迎建议,give us your idea too!）

-Nick

[Vane Train]

Mind and emotion - thought and feelings

Does the heart think? What does it mean by the heart thinks?

Pity, love, compassion, fear -  are products of the mind or emotion?

When we observe something, emotion reacts first or the mind?

I say I don’t want to love you because I don’t have any intention to love you, but I respect and honour you – which one is deciding the mind or emotion?

We have so many fears in life because of the fact we see around us, because of our situation and experiences – which one is deciding the mind or emotion?

Balancing the mind and emotion requires reflection, truthfulness, acceptance and practicality.

[wenyu zhan]

“Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary.  Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God.  We do not recognize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

 

Traditional religious practices are important: they allow us to share with other the communal experience of adoration and prayer. But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above
all a practical experience of love.   And with love, there are no rules. Some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior; others may turn to reading boods of advice from "experts" on relationships-but this is all folly.  The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters. ”

http://www.songdragon.com/river.html

 

Pualo Coelho 的一本叫做《The Zahir》的书里也有一段话是这样的 "people do thire best not to remember and not to accept the immense magical potential they possess ,because that would upset their neat litter universes.....we just don't have courage to follow our dreams and to follow the signs .Perhaps that's where the sadness comes from ."

 

"All you have to do is to pay attention lessons always arrive when you are ready ,and if you can read the signs ,you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step"

 

当我看到Listen to the voice of your heart这个主题时想到Pualo Coelho 的上面提到的一些话语，还有之前在看的一套《阿米》系列的书时，以及今天看的电影《2012世界末日》里试图表述给大众的一种超越了人们惯性思维的概念，即遵循宇宙法则或宇宙语言，跟随心的声音. 诚然，要做到这个不是容易的，首先我们要区分什么声音来自我们内心，什么声音是大脑的分析，他们的区别在哪儿？第二个问题就是如何区分，正确的是什么？依据什么？需要什么样的努力和能力？之后就是如何跟随心的声音在现实生活中运用，也就是将得到的心声付诸行动？行动之后什么是被确认？怎样得到确认？

 

对于第一个问题我觉得就像Pualo Coelho说的那样，我们的存在界通过各种途径与方式给我们展现signs，一些人忙于个人事物，追求，无暇思考与注意；一些人看到了不相信，忽视其意义；一些人则读懂了部分，却找到很多理由与借口拒绝执行；还有一些人则相信，从而也付出努力跟随指引。显而易见，并不是我们看不到signs，而是我们不愿意接受，不敢尝试，不想舍弃习惯了生活。所以，区分到底是内心的声音还是来自自我被控制的声音取决于我们的勇气，正直，无私以及纯洁的心。朋友说有时她甚至听不到自己心的声音，我能理解这种心情。所谓心灵，是心与灵共同构建而成的，我们人通过外在的视觉，听觉，嗅觉，未决，触觉感知这个存在的世界，然后传递给内在的灵，灵具有思考，想象，记忆，理解的能力。那种外在的感知能力最终需要内在的灵的能力转化才能产生效果，否则就是暂时的，感官上的。虽然心灵像镜子洁净，完整，明亮就好，但是镜子发亮与实现其自身意义的是光，第一步是接受光的照耀。所以，我觉得有时候我们看到的，感知到的，只是事物本质的一个表象，如果我们就被这个表征吸引以为这就是全部的话，那么我们从中汲取的有益的，有意义的就是沧海一栗。

 

总之，我认为心得声音不是那么容易找到的普遍问题出于People always believe what they want to believe ，而不是体会The innermost feelings 。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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where there is love ,nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.

[Nick]

I was grateful that Carman came to the English corner despite the
unexpected cold weather on Wednesday. I was dying to understand more
about the theme and it turned out that Carman was just the right
person to talk to. Her inspiration to me came deep and natural!

Carman said it is in critical moments of our life when important
decisions need to be made that we feel our heart torn in two
directions.

She gave an interesting analogy. Picture yourselves standing at the
road crossing. We may separate from our true self who knows and wants
to walk the straight path. As we move on off the straight path, we can
feel certain lost of energy. However, if we continue, we can find
other energy which is crucial for us to live practically. And then, we
may gain strength to go back to the straight path.

Carman said our inner energy is pure, but not sufficient by itself
sometimes. At the same time, there can be other ourside energy, but
they can be confusing and distracting . So we must not loose ourselves
in seeking outside energy only. We have to remember going back to the
straight path.

Inspirations I got from Carman’s analogy:

Two friends, rather than two enemies

The different voices inside us are like the voices of two friends who
accompany each other in the journey of life.

Sometimes they disagree with each other, like couples do. That’s
because they see different things, which are usually important things.

A decision is usually needed at such a time. We can’t stop in the
journey of life for too long.

Even when we have differing opinions, we can decide to try one way at
a time, to investigate!

When we do that, one important thing to always remember is that:

We are partners in this journey of life and should take care of each
other!

So we have to make sure both voices are equally heard,

And reasons of different concerns are explored and understood.

We should not expect one voice to dominant the other.

Because they are friends rather than enemies. Besides, neither of them
will really stop talking!

Between friends diversities are appreciated!

So listen to the VOICES of your heart!!!:)

[Nick]

A very good movie for this topic to recommend: A beautiful mind(美丽心
灵)!!!