晨读英语美文 Principles Are Lighthouses

Principles Are Lighthouses

[00:13.43]It was a dark and stormy night.

[00:17.50]The officer on the bridge came to the captain and said,

[00:20.95]Captain, Captain, there is a light in our sea lane and they won't move.

[00:26.11]What do you mean they won't move?

[00:28.62]Tell them to move.

[00:30.12]Tell them starboard right now.The signal was sent out,

[00:34.03]Starboard, starboard. The signal came back,

[00:37.69]Starboard yourself.

[00:39.56]I can't believe this.

[00:41.36]What's going on here?

[00:43.02]Let them know who I am. The signal sent out,

[00:46.50]This is the mighty Missouri,starboard.

[00:49.74]The signal came back,

[00:51.54]This is the lighthouse.

[00:53.78]My friends, correct principles are lighthouses,

[00:57.68]they do not move.

[00:59.06]They are natural laws.

[01:01.39]We cannot break them.

[01:02.70]We can only break ourselves against them.

[01:05.53]We might as well learn them,

[01:07.89]accommodate them,

[01:08.96]utilize them and be grateful for them.

[01:11.73]Then it enlarges us and emancipates us and empowers us.

[01:17.00]T·S· Eliot once said something I think is appropriate

[01:21.50]as we come to the conclusion of our visit together.

[01:24.47]He said, We shall never cease from striving,

[01:27.86]and the end of all of our striving will be to arrive where we began

[01:32.79]and to know the place for the first time.