This course aims at lifting learner’s spirits while they are poking their nose at the splendid, transcendent and insightful works by the prestigious saints, philosophers and literary writers. Reading of these works can have their mind broadened, purified, ascending to the truthdom, which guides us the way to understand life and death, what and how we should do to make our lives more meaningful and worthy. In addition, it is a good helping hand to those who want to improve the target language, especially writing skills, which embraces grammar analysis, sentence structures, paragraph segmentation, the use of main ideas and details, etc. The lectures go with songs, videos and practical writing in class, which makes every lesson interesting and fruitful. 本课程为学员讲多篇由哲者及名家撰写之文章，同时亦介绍一些经世读本，除了启发学员对生命价值之了解外，亦兴发其心志，使对真理与美善有所企仰。学员于阅览文章之际，犹如在劳碌繁忙之生活里，稍停下来，享用一口清冽甘泉，净化心灵。 本课程也能帮助人欲提高英语能力，特别是写作技巧方面。语法分析、句子结构、段落区分、主题思想及细节铺排等等均所讲及。又在课堂上配以歌曲、视频和实践写作，使学习趣味盎然而富有成效。 Prelude Life Mark Lai King Lau 1.On Aspiration a. The Joy of Living Anonymous b. Spiritual Encouragement Pope with the spirituality since Peter To make your life an upbeat one, cherishing happiness and joviality in any place, at any time. c. To open our mind and enjoy our lives Mark Lai King Lau and Hendrick Willem Van Loon 2. On Love (II) 谈爱 Kahlil Gibran a. One Life, One Love William Shakespeare b. To Be or Not To Be William Shakespeare c. Child and his power of growth Anonymous 3. Ambition a. Don’t let anyone steal your dream Johnna Parr 坚持你的梦想 b. The proper attitude towards life— to be self-confident The Sound of Music 4.On Nature a. Daffodils William Wordsworth 水仙花 b. On Nature and Human Ralph Waldo Emerson 人与自然 c. Moonlight over the Lotus Pond 朱自清 荷塘月色 5.Child and his power of growth Anonymous 孩子强大的生命力 6.Youth Aristotle 7.How to grow old Bertrand Russell