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Being grateful shouldn't wait for Thanksgiving. We shouldn't wait just once a year,
表达感激不应该等到感恩节。我们不应该只等每年一次
that November date, when we express gratitude, when we go around the table and say what we are grateful for.
在11月的那天，去表达感激之情，坐在桌旁轮流说感激什么
It should be a habit. A, because it works, it helps. And B, because it's moral.
它应该是一个习惯，首先因为它行之效，有帮助。其次因为它是道德的
This gets to a point that I'll repeat throughout the course, where the moral is also the practical.
这点很重要，我会贯穿始终强调，道德也是实际的
The practical, in most cases, is also the moral.
而实际在多数情况下，也是讲道德的
They go hand in hand. David Steindl-Rast, the book that I mentioned last time: "We live in a 'given" world.
两者密不可分。戴维·斯坦德尔-拉斯特，上次课我提到的那本书，我们生活在一个给与的世界
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this given life in all its fullness."
带来满足的是感激之情，心灵对此给与人生的简单回应就是圆满
Again, just like a child. The poet, Galway Kinnel: "To live and die in gratefulness, if in no other virtue."
就像一个孩子，诗人高尔韦·金奈尔写道："感激地活着和死去，若无其他美德"

Cicero: "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others".
西塞罗写道："感激不仅是最大的美德，也是其他美德的发源"
Why is it parent of all others? I thought about this sentence a lot which I love, but why?
为什么是其他美德的发源？我经常想起这句最爱的话，但是为什么
Because if you think about it, if we are not grateful, then we take things for granted. If we are not grateful for the good things in our lives,
想想吧，如果我们不知感激，我们就会将事情视作理所当然。如果我们不知感激生命中美好的事物
things are taken for granted. And then we are blind to them.
认为它们理所当然，那就会对它们视而不见
Then as far as we are concerned, they do not exist.
对我们来说，它们是不存在的
Now what makes virtue virtuous?
美德为什么是高尚的
It's the good. And if there is no good in our world, then that takes away the virtue from being virtuous.
是它的好。如果世上没有好，那么美德将不再高尚
That is why I think... what Cicero was talking about when he meant "it is the parent of all virtues".
所以我认为……西塞罗所谓的"它是所有美德的发源"的含义

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我们来到这个世上，到底追求什么才是最重要的？他坚定地认为：幸福感是衡量人生的唯一标准，是所有目标的最终目标。塔尔博士在哈佛学生中享有很高的声誉，受到学生们的爱戴与敬仰，被誉为"最受欢迎讲师"和"人生导师"。