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Provided that you aim throughout your life, as you continue learning, to integrate your thought, to make it harmonious.
只要在你這一生繼續學習的過程中，你立志把你的思想融會貫通，使之和諧。
If you happen to be an engineer and also enjoy singing in a glee club, connect these two activities.
如果你剛好是一個工程師，同時又喜歡在合唱隊中一展歌喉，那你就可以將兩項活動結合起來。
They unite in you; they are not in conflict.
它們在你身上有機地結合起來，互不沖突。
Both choral singing and engineering are examples of the architectonic ability of man: of his power to make a large plan and to convey it clearly to others.
合唱和工程學都是人類構造能力的具體體現，它們體現了人類制定一項宏大計劃并將其清楚地傳達給其他人的能力。
Both are aesthetic and depend much on symmetry.
兩者都涉及美學，而且在很大程度上依靠對稱性。
Think about them not as though they were dissociated, but as though each were one aspect of a single unity.
不要認為它們是相互脫節的，而應認為它們是一個統一體的不同方面。
You will do them better, and be happier.
這樣你就會做得更好、變得更快樂。
Much unhappiness has been suffered by those people who have never recognized that it is as necessary to make themselves into whole and harmonious personalities as to keep themselves clean, healthy and financially solvent.
那些飽嘗不快的人從未認識到，使自己具有完整和諧的人格就像保持自身的整潔、健康和經濟上無債務一樣有必要。
Wholeness of the mind and spirit is not a quality conferred by nature, or by God.
完整的思想和精神不是自然或上帝賜予的基本屬性。
It is like health, virtue and knowledge.
它就像健康、美德和知識一樣。
Man has the capacity to attain it; but to achieve it depends on his own efforts.
人們具有獲得它的能力；但能否得到則取決于自身的努力了。
It needs long, deliberate effort of the mind and the emotions, and even the body.
這需要思想和感情，甚至身體上的長期不懈努力。
During our earthly life, the body dies; even the emotions become duller.
在我們世俗的生命中，身體最終要死掉；甚至情感也會變得比較麻木。
But the mind in most of us continues to live,
但我們大多數人的思想依然存活，
and even grows more lively and active, enjoys itself more, works and plays with more expansion and delight.
甚至還會變得更加積極活躍，思想本身會很快活，以更大的熱情在更大的范圍內工作和娛樂。
