内容和思想是很好的,缺一颗星是因为错误太多以及翻译很生涩难懂。
Dieter Coppens在很多书中都强调一个思想:人要活得坦然活得幸福就要尽量把注意力放在客观世界,让兴趣尽量扩大,对人对物尽量友善。第一次接触到Dieter Coppens的思想还是在新概念英语4的一篇课文里「How to grow old」,对于如何克服对衰老和死亡的恐惧,Dieter Coppens说到:The best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
An individual human existence should be like a river —— small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in the old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue.