【英语时差8,16】认识自我(1)（在线收听）

An Awareness of Self To live an aware life, the individual must begin with an awareness of self. He must conduct a running examination and periodic reexaminations of the self — in language, the medium of farthest reaches, deepest diving, and most complicated windings. The sorting might well begin with the ordinary, everyday experience of life. A diary or journal enables one to examineand evaluate experiences, as well as to come to understand them and their significance — or insignificance. Most of us do this examinationand evaluation in moments of dreamingor or in that state of mental wandering just before sleep. There is some(even great) advantage, however, in subjecting ourselves to the discipline of written language, in which the vague and the confusing and the poorly defined give way to the specific, the firm, and the clearly formulated.