安静帮助我们思考当天发生的事情或计划第二天将要做的事情。我是个夜猫子同时也是个早起的人。我喜欢早晨起床是的安静，我知道每个人都安全的在被窝里睡着觉，这样我可以写作或是在电脑前工作。在周末时，我和我的妻子谈论一些当天发生的事情或是我们的计划。我的妻子，一个爱睡觉的人，会慢慢进入梦乡。我就会再起来写作，因为这是我最有灵感的时刻。我也是早上第一个起床的人，这也以为这我有多余的两个小时来写作或是在我的网上项目上继续工作。
我知道独自一人的时候很难熬，然而，安静的时间可以用来思考一下你想要的人生和你实现梦想的计划。
5、静思。 这是和世界沟通的一个很好的方法。拿出早上和晚上的15分钟专注于你的呼吸对大脑和身体都是有好处的。我坚信，静思可以帮助我们达到一种更高层次的平静。
沉默的状态是进入你另一部分大脑的方法，这种方法在你的日常生活中是达不到的。你大脑的另一部分是和你周围世界的每一部分联系在一起的。通过练习，你可以把这种方法列入你的脑海中。
日本打造水晶坐便器价值连城
Japan builds lavatory encrusted with diamonds
[ 2011-12-20 16:37 ]
First, Japan gave the world hi-tech lavatories. Now, a crystal lavatory – studded with more than 72,000 pieces of Swarovski cut crystal and valued at over $100,000 (￡64,000).
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First, Japan gave the world hi-tech lavatories. Now, a crystal lavatory – studded with more than 72,000 pieces of Swarovski cut crystal and valued at over $100,000 (￡64,000).
Lavatory manufacturer INAX teamed up with the Austrian jeweller to create the ornate fixture, which is on display in a showroom in the posh Ginza shopping district, an effort to draw more
customers in a year fraught with economic gloom and natural disaster.
In a nod to traditional belief, the sparkling lavatory was created to please the \Sumimiya, director of the showroom for the Lixil interior fixture company of which INAX is a part.
之前，日本曾发明过高科技坐便器，而今，又推出了水晶坐便器，镶满了超过7.2万颗施华洛世奇切割水晶，价值超过10万美元（6.4万英镑）。 卫生器具生产商INAX与奥地利珠宝公司施华洛世奇共同打造了这款华丽的设备，并在豪华的银座商业区的一间展览室中展出，此举是为了在被经济阴霾和自然灾害笼罩的一年吸引更多的顾客。
INAX 所属的Lixil室内设备公司展览室的主管Kazuo Sumimiya说，为了向传统致敬，生产商打造出这个耀目的坐便器来取悦“洗手间女神”。 他补充说：“在日本，我们相传有女神守护洗手间。这也是为什么保持卫生间清洁、打理好卫生间长久以来就
\the lavatory. That's why keeping
lavatories clean and taking good care of it have been a Japanese custom since long ago,\
\we were to sell it, it would probably be worth around 10 million yen ($130,000).\
Visitors admired the dazzling fixture, with one woman saying she'd like to invite her friends and hold a party around it. But others said it might be a bit too exalted to be useful.
\comfortable enough to use it even if I had this at home,\Kawanami, an art museum receptionist. The lavatory will be on display until the end of December.
(Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)
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Vocabulary:
ornate: 华丽的，绚丽的
in a nod to: 作为感谢、致敬或表示尊重
是日本的传统。”
“如果我们出售这个坐便器的话，大概价值在1000万日元（13万美元）。”
参观者都非常欣赏这个眩目的设备，一位女性称想邀请朋友们来这里举办派对。
但其他人说，这个坐便器太尊贵了，不太实用。
22岁的艺术博物馆招待员Chikako Kawanami说：“它太坚硬了。即使我有一个这样的坐便器在家里，我也不觉得用起来会很舒服。” 这个坐便器将展出到12月底。 相关阅读
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（中国日报网英语点津 Julie 编辑：陈丹妮）
The Secret To Spending Less And Having More
发布时间：2011-12-20 文章出自：motivatethyself.com 原文链接：点击查看
I was walking the dogs this evening, thinking about my wife, Liz, and my son, Tyson, both of whom are visiting my mother-in-law for the weekend. As I walked I was picturing Tyson, who is just a hair over 4 months of age, wearing his blue pajamas, hat and slippers. This was the outfit I saw him in this morning, just before heading to the office. He looked so cute, baby pimples and all. He gave me a big smile and made both Liz and I smile with a joy that never seems to lose its luster, no matter how many times he cracks the same silly grin.
So I?m walking my dogs, picturing my cute little son, my beautiful wife and the tangible happiness that they bring to my life. I guess you could say that I had found a moment of true appreciation for what I?d been blessed with. Yet the funny thing is that in those moments (and I?m sure you can relate to this) I had not a single thought of a purchased item. Not my Macbook Pro or iPhone, not my car or house or my TV or bike or…you get the point. OK, maybe I thought about my Macbook, but only for a second and then it was back to my wife and son.
It?s just that in these moments we seem to recognize what truly matters in life. The rest of the time we find ourselves worrying about money, obsessing over something we want to purchase or trying to convince ourselves and/or those around us that our lives would be much better off if we could just have that one item that?s missing from our ?collection?.
Our Return Is Always Equal To Our Investment
When you invest your time, money and/or attention into something you will inevitably receive a return that is equal to that investment (this is not always entirely true, but just work with me here).