本文为【哈佛幸福课推荐书】—Flow 读书笔记之十
每晚读诗对心灵的作用,就和每天用健身器材锻炼身体的效果类似。不一定要读伟大的诗,至少一开始不需要如此,也不一定要读完一整首诗。重要的是要找到至少一段或一句能打动你心的诗句;有时甚至一个字就足以开启一扇新的窗,给你一个看世界的新角度,让心灵开始一场内在的旅程。
Reading from a book of poems each night is to the mind as working out on a Nautilus is to the body-a way for staying in shape. It doesn’t have to be “great”poetry, at least not a first. And it is not necessary to read an entire poem. What’s important is to find a least a line, or a verse, that starts to sing. Sometimes even one word is enough to open a window on a new view of the world, to start the mind on an inner journey.
Csikszentmihalyi这段话说到我心坎去了。也不知道从什么时候开始,习惯在床头放几本喜爱的诗集,睡觉前随意的翻一翻,读几句。让我觉得很神奇的是诗歌能让我一下子从纷扰的物质世界,跌入到另外一个时空。在那里,灵魂可以尽情地呼吸、歌唱和舞蹈。