Chapter 104 walk into a temple (2)

People are like fortresses, they must limit themselves in order to find the meaning of life. "A man wants to be free when he breaks the wall, and he is left with only a pile of broken walls exposed to the starlight. At this time, he begins to have nowhere to hide." "Freedom without a foothold is not freedom." Those who have no foothold , they are nowhere, so they think they are free.Are there still too many such people today?Not having a belief of your own, they call this freedom of thought.Not having a stand of their own, they call this freedom of movement.Women who don't have their own, they call it love freedom.However, true freedom is always premised on choice and restriction. To fall in love with this flower is to reject other flowers.Even if a man loves everything that exists, he must find a definite goal for his love, and then his universal love can be satisfied.

three The meaning of life lies in the most ordinary daily life, but this does not mean that everyone who lives this kind of life has found the meaning of life.Saint-Exupery tells us this truth with a parable.Those who settled in the oasis are used to living and working in peace and contentment, their feelings have been numb, and they don't know that this is happiness.Their women squatted on the round white pebbles in the stream to wash clothes, thinking that they were completing a hard work like the family.The prince ordered his tribe to attack the oasis and marry the women for himself.He told his subordinates: You have to chase the wind and the sun in the desert with untold hardships, and you have the religion of oasis in your heart, so that you can understand that watching your woman washing clothes by the river is actually celebrating a festival.

I believe this is Saint-Exupery's most personal feeling. When he was born and died in the sky, the ordinary life on the ground will become his religion in his heart, and the insensitivity of the people in it will become a kind of religion in his eyes. kind of blasphemy.People should not seek meaning from the boundless desert outside the fortress, but "being threatened is a condition of the quality of things", and to understand the meaning of life inside the fortress, one must experience the desert. Everywhere is the same in daily life, the difference lies in the soul of man.Owning property does not mean owning a home.Home is not the sheep, the fields, the houses, the mountains, but the thing that unites them all.What else could that thing be but the soul of a person looking for and feeling meaning? "The only thing that matters to man is the meaning of things." However, meaning is not in things, but in the relationship between people and things, which organizes individual things into a meaningful whole for people.Meaning weaves man into a miraculous web that makes him larger than himself.Therefore, wheat fields, houses, and flocks are no longer just things that can be converted into money, but people's years, hopes and confidence are condensed in them.

"Spirit only lives in one motherland, and that is the meaning of all things." This is an invisible motherland, and all things can only be seen with the naked eye, and the soul must be used to understand the meaning.God is invisible in order to open the eyes of the mind, and those who open the eyes of the mind will see him everywhere.In the sucking of the baby when the mother is breastfeeding, in the smile of the wife when the husband returns home, and in the light of sunrise when the sailor sails, all they see is God. "My zeal was foolish," says the man who has no empire in his heart, and he is telling the truth, for now he has no zeal and sees only sheep, houses, and mountains here and there.The image in the mind dies, and the meaning disappears with it.However, people don't feel uncomfortable at this time, and compromise with mediocrity is often done unconsciously.When your loved one leaves you, you will definitely suffer.The passion of love leaves you and you feel no pain, because your dead heart is incapable of feeling pain.

A man poured spring water into an earthen jar because he loved the singing of the spring water, and hid it in a cabinet.We are often as stupid as this person.When we shut a woman up in a room, we think we have her beauty.When we appropriate something for ourselves, we think we possess its meaning.But meaning cannot be possessed, and once you try to possess it, it is gone.The triumphant warrior is guarding his spoils, and a female prisoner is sleeping naked, but she can only help in vain in the face of her beauty.He captured this woman, but he couldn't capture her beauty in his hands.No matter how close we are to a woman, her beauty is always outside of us.Not in possession, but in the appreciation and fascination of men, the beauty of women has meaning.I think of Heine. He never married a beautiful woman in his life, but he turned the beauty of many women into his poems, and thus into his and human wealth.

Four Therefore, meaning is not a ready-made thing in things, but a human input.Meaning cannot be obtained by possessing things, but by love and creation.The farmers take from the wheat the nourishment that nourishes their bodies, and what they give to the wheat enriches their souls. "The man who goes to the well, thirsty, pulls the creaking iron chain, lifts the heavy bucket over the well fence, and thus hears the water's song and all the shrill music. He is thirsty and makes him His walk, his arms, his eyes are also full of meaning, and the thirsty man goes toward the well, like a poem." And those who drink the water ready from the cup cannot hear the water's song .For a person who goes up a mountain by a sliding pole -- today a cable car -- no matter how beautiful the mountain is, it is just a concept and does not have substance. "When I talk about mountains, I mean the mountains where you have been stabbed by thorns, fallen from the cliff, sweated while moving the stone, picked the flowers on it, and finally breathed the wind against the top of the mountain." If Without using your own body and mind, everything is meaningless.People who seek comfort are actually giving up meaning.

You feel sorry for your woman, let her get rid of the daily housework, and ask the nanny to do everything, and as a result, home gradually loses its meaning to her. "To make a woman a hymn is to give her the home that at dawn needs to be rebuilt." To make a home a home requires an investment of time.Now people are reluctant to spend time on trivial matters at home, leave early and return late, struggle and enjoy outside, and home has become a hostel. Love is patience, waiting for meaning to slowly build up over time.Maternal love comes from daily feeding.Those who lament that their children grow up fast are outsiders, and parents rarely feel this way.You observe that tree in your yard every day, and it gradually takes root in your heart.A man hunted a small sand fox and fed it carefully, but then it fled back to the desert.The man was sad because of this, and others persuaded him to catch another one. He replied: "It's not difficult to catch, but the difficulty is love, which requires patience."