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| In this modern world, we rush around all day, doing things, talking, sending and reading messages. We are always on, always connected, always thinking, always talking. There is no 1 for stillness. And when we are 2 to be still because we're in line for something, or waiting at a doctor's appointment, or on a bus or train, we often 3 something to do. Some will play with mobile devices, others will read something. Being still isn't something we're 4 . This comes at a 5 : we lose that time for 6 , for observing and listening. We lose peace. And 7 still: sometimes too much action is worse than no action at all. You can run around crazily, but get 8 done. Take a moment to think about 9 you spend your days. Are you constantly rushing around? Are you constantly reading and answering 10 or checking on the news and the latest stream of information? Are you always 11 through your schedule? Is this how you want to spend your 12 ? If so, peace be with you. If not, take a moment to be 13 . Don't think about what you have to do, or what you've done already. 14 be in the moment. Then after a minute or two of doing that, consider your life, and how you'd 15 it to be. See your life with less movement, less doing, less rushing. See it with more stillness, more consideration, more 16 . Then be that vision. It's pretty simple: all you have to do is sit still for a little bit each day. 17 you've gotten used to that, try doing less each day. Breathe when you feel yourself moving too 18 . Slow down. Find happiness now, in this moment, instead of 19 for it. 20 the stillness. It's a treasure, and it's available to us, always. | ||||
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| In 1883, a creative engineer, John Roebling, was inspired to build a splendid bridge connecting New York with Long Island. However, experts throughout the world thought that this was__1__. Even so, Roebling could not__2__the idea in his mind. After much discussion, he__3__convince his son Washington, an up-and-coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built. They hired their__4__ began to build their dream bridge. Only a few months__5__the project was underway, a tragic on-site accident killed John Roebling and__6__injured his son, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to move or__7__. Surely now the project would have to be__8__. Though Washington Roebling lay in his hospital bed, he was not__9__ and his mind remained as__10__as it was before the accident.Suddenly an idea__11__him. All he could move was one finger, so he__12__the arm of his wife with that finger, __13__to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again.Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. For 13 years Washington tapped out his__14__with one finger until the bridge was__15__ completed. Perhaps this is one of the best examples of never-say-die attitude that__16__a terrible physical disability and achieves an impossible__17__. Often when we face difficulties in our daily lives, our problems seem very small__18__what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that even the most__19__dream can be realized with__20__no matter what the chances are. | ||||
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| In the depths of my memory , many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent,in fact, what I call 1 and love. I don't remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did 2 the water. Any kind of 3 ride seemed to give him pleasure. 4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along. But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being 5 the water, moving through it, 6 it all around me. I was not a strong 7 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my 8 . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father's office and 9 those summer days with my father,who 10 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit,the 11 person not in swimsuit. After swimming,l would go 12 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me 13 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk 14 he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn't be playing with his 15 . But my father always 16 and said easily,"Oh, no,it's 17 . " Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get 18 an ice cream… | ||||
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