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If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, its helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my favorite ways to do this is by developing my own helping rituals. 如果你想让自己的生活安宁祥和，最好做一些友善平和的事情。我最喜欢的一种方式是培养 自己乐于助人的习惯。 These little acts of kindness are opportunities to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be kind and helpful. 这些小小的善行让你有机会去帮助别人，让你意识到待人友善、乐于助人的感觉有多好。 We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is beauty and nature. One of the exceptions to the beauty is the litter that some people throw out of their windows as they are driving on the rural roads. 我们住在旧金山圣弗朗西斯科湾地区的郊外。我们目所能及的几乎都是美丽的自然风光。与这美景不太和谐的是有人驱车行驶在乡间小路上时随手从车窗往外扔垃圾。 One of the few drawbacks to living out the boondocks is that public services, such as litter collection, are less available than they are closer to the city. 而居住在这种偏远的地方的一个缺点就是缺少必要的公共服务，例如，垃圾的收集就不如靠近市区那样方便。 A helping ritual that I practice regularly with my two children is picking up litter in our surrounding areas. Weve become so accustomed to doing this that my daughters will often say to me in animated voices, Theres some litter, Daddy, stop the car! 我跟我的两个孩子经常做的一件事就是捡拾我们周围地区的垃圾。对此我们已经习以为常，我的女儿们经常会兴奋地对我说，爸爸，这儿有垃圾，请停一下车! | 
