2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：Love Is Difficult
1. What is perhaps the most difficult task we should take?2. According to the passage, what induces the individual to perpect
himself?
3. What is the learning time of love like? It is always…and…
Love Is Difficult
It is good to love, but love is difficult. For one human being to love
another human being is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted
to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other
work is merely perparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in
everything, are not yet capable of love. It is something they must learn. With
their whole being, with all their forces gathered around their solitary,
anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning time is
always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, and is solitude, a
heightened and deepened kind of alonenness for the person who loves. loving does
not at first mean merging, surrendering or uniting with another person; it is a
high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to
become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great demanding
claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances. Only
in this sense, as the task of working on themselves, may young people use the
love that is given to them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion
is not for them (who must, still,for a long, long time, save and gather
themselves) It is the ultimate. It is perhaps that for which human lives as yet
barely large enough.
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