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2021年1月18日发(作者：长沙游记)
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美丽人生
There were a sensitivitysensitivitysensitivitysensitivity and a beauty to her that have
nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to,
whosewords weresoeasytotaketoheart.
It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of
art, the seemingly
ceaselessceaselessceaselessceaselessbuzz that is human thought all have in common
the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw
close toand possess the truthof beingcanbe a feverishfeverishfeverishfeverishone. In
somecases itcan even befatal, if pleasureis one's
truth and itsattainmentattainmentattainmentattainment moreimportant than life
other lives, though, the search for what is truthfulgives
life.
I used to find notes left in the collection basket, beautiful notes about my homilies and
about the writer's
thoughts onthe daily scripturalscripturalscripturalscriptural readings. The personwho
pennedthe notes wouldaddreflections to my thoughts
andwouldalways include some quotes from poetsandmystics he or shehadread
andremembered andloved. The
notes fascinated me. Here was someone immersed in a search for truth and beauty.
Words had been treasured,
words that were beautiful. And I felt as if the words somehow delighted in being
discovered, for they were
obviously verygenerous tothe as yet anonymous writer of the notes. Andnow this
personwas inturn learning the
secret of sharingthem. Beautysoshines y truththat existsis,in
that sense,free.
Itwas a longtime beforeI met theauthor of the notes.
One Sunday morning, I was told that someone was waiting for me in the office. The
young person who
answered the rectory door said that it was
When I saw her I was
shocked, since I immediately recognized her from church but hadnoidea that it was
shewhowrote the notes. She
was sitting ina chair in the office with her hands folded inher lap. Her head was
bowedandwhenshe raisedit to
look at me, she could barely smile without pain. Her face was disfigured, and the skin
so tight from surgical
procedures that smiling or laughing was very difficult for her. She had sufferedterribly
from treatment to remove
thegrowths that hadsomarred her face.
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Wechattedfor a whilethat Sunday morning andagreedtomeet for lunchlater that week.
As it turned out we went to lunch several times, and she always wore a hat during the
meal. I think that
treatments of somesorthadcauseda lot of her hair to fall edthings about our
lives. I toldher about my
schooling and growing up. She told me that she had worked for years for an insurance
company. She never
mentionedfamily, andI didnotask.
Wespokeof authorsweboth hadread, andit was easytotell that booksarea great loveof
hers.
I have thought about her often over the years and how she struggled in a society that
places an incredible
premium onlooks, class,wealth andall the other fineries of life. She sufferedfrom a
disfigurement that cannot be
made tolookattractive. I know that her conditionhurt her deeply.
Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have.
And yet there were a
sensitivity anda beautyto her that hadnothing todo with was one to
belistenedto, whose words were
soeasy to take to words came from a woundedbut loving heart, very much
like all hearts,but she had
more of a needto be aware of it, to live with it andlearn from it. She possesseda
fine-tuned sense of
onlyfear inlifewasthe lossof a friend.
How long does it take most of us to reach that level of human growth, if we ever get
there? We get so
consumedanddiminished, worrying about all the things that needimproving, wecan
easily forget to cherish those
things that last. Friendship, sorare andso good, just needs our care--maybe even the
simplegesture of writing a
littlenote now andthen, or the dropping of some beautiful words in a basket,in the
hopethat such beautywill besharedandtakentoheart.
The truth of her life wasa desire to see beyondthe surfacefor a glimpseof what it is
that matters. She found
beautyandgraceandthey befriendedher,andshowedher what isreal.

[NextPage 参考翻译一]
她有着一种与外表无关的灵气和美丽。她的话语轻而易举 地征服了人心，她正是
我们要聆听的声音。
很多人都说人生的真谛是个未知的概念。言词的费 力诠释、艺术的着力表现还有
人类那似乎永无休止
的纷繁思考，三者都苦苦追寻人生的真谛。 希望走近以至完全把握存在的真意可
以令人十分狂热。有时候，
有些人以自己笃信的真理为志 趣，追寻真理甚于保全生命，于是就有舍生取义之
举。然而，也有另外的一