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2014년 2월 25일 화요일

PE 2/25 Oprah Winfrey Speech – Part 4

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a poem for her children. It’s called “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress –Toward.” And she says at the end, “Live not for battles won. / Live not for the-end-of-the-song. /Live in the along.” She’s saying, like Eckhart Tolle, that you have to live for the present.

You have to be in the moment. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
* be/live in the moment: to have full awareness of the present
ex> If you live in the moment, you will feel like your time is better spent.

But I think she’s also saying, be part of something. Don’t live for yourself alone.
* live for oneself: to live with only oneself in mind; be selfish
ex> If you live just for yourself, you will find that you are very lonely.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand for something larger than yourself.
* stand for: to have a guiding principle in one’s life; represent or symbolize
ex> Malcolm X once said, “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
ex> The swastika, which is the reverse of the Buddhist symbol, stands for the Nazi party.
ex> I won’t stand for such rude behavior.  (=to put up with or tolerate)

Because life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward you have to give back.
* reciprocal: something that is equally felt or experienced by both sides.
ex> The deal between the two countries was reciprocal – both got something they wanted.
* give back: to return something in equal amounts to what is received
ex> After Andrew became a doctor, he returned home to give something back to his community.


<Practice Makes Perfect>
1.      I always try to be in the moment and not think about the past or the future.
2.      Sarah is so selfish, she only lives for herself.
3.      Martin Luther King stood for equality among the races.
4.      Their love was completely reciprocal and they never parted.
5.      The company provided food for the poor as a way of giving back to the community.

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