赖大师的精选---我的挚爱(快乐钥匙)

第七弹    快乐钥匙

A key to happiness

    To help others, you don’t have to be an efficient expert in the art;
the main thing is the intention. You may be crude and clumsy, wasteful¹
and ineffective, but if you sincerely try to help, your attempt produces
nothing but good. The one your are trying to help knows your intention
and is strengthened and encouraged by the magic of your sharing. In
nearly every case, your simple desire to help, converted into action,
produce the good sought. But perhaps the greatest good is the good
that you yourself get out of the attempt. Service to others delivers more
joy to you than the joy you deliver to them. In doing good, you free
yourself from the terrible burden of self; you escape from yourself into a
clean world of joy and light. The good you simply try to do, regardless
of the outcome, is always a success inside yourself.

     Unselfish giving is your most efficient formula for happiness, for you
have embraced eternity² instead of self; you have felt life, and you are
now the world bigger than you were before you began the project.

1 wasteful   

adj.（造成）浪费的，挥霍的

参考例句：

• It is a shame to be so wasteful.这样浪费太可惜了。
• Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.为避免重复劳动浪费资源，任务已经重新分派。

2 eternity   

n.不朽，来世；永恒，无穷

参考例句：

• The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
• Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞，永世相随。