A professor was traveling with a few of his students, they happened to pass a lake. Then the professor told one of his students to get some _______ for him.

When the student _______ the lake, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and,_______at that moment, a bullock cart(牛车) started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very _______. The student thought, “How can I give this muddy water to my _______ to drink!? ” So he came back and told professor, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is _______ to drink.”

After about half an hour, again the professor asked the _______ student to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The student went back to the _______. This time he found that the lake had _______clear water in it. So he ________ some water in a pot and brought it to the professor.

The professor looked at the water, and then he looked up at the student and said, “See what you did to make the water ________. You let it be ... and the mud ________ on its own — and you got clear water... Your ________is also like that. When it is ________, just let it be. Give it a little ________. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It is ________.”

What did the professor emphasize here? He said, “It is effortless. Having '________of mind' is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless ________. When there is peace ________ you, that peace permeates to the outside. It ________ around you and in the environment, such that people around start feeling that peace and grace.

When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a faraway village. One day, on the road, I found the _______ pieces of a mirror. There was a German motorcycle accident.

I tried to find all the pieces and put them _______, but it was not possible, so I kept only the_______piece and I made it round. I began to _______with it as a toy and became greatly attracted by the _______ that I could reflect (反射) light to dark places where the sun would never shine—in_______holes and some other dark places. It became a   _______for me to get light into the darkest places I could find.

I _______the little mirror, and, as I_______up, I would take it out when I had nothing to do and________the game. As I became a ________, I grew to understand that this was not ________a child’s game but a metaphor (象征) for what I might do with my life. I came to ________that I am not the light or the source (来源) of light. But light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is ________, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.

I am just a single piece of a mirror whose__________design and shape I do not know.   ________, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this________—into the black places in the   __________of men—and change some things__________some people. Perhaps others may see and do the same. This is what I am about. This is the__________of my life.

It was a summer evening almost 50 years ago. I was rocking my baby boy in my arms and when he fell asleep I put him_______down into his crib for the night. My wife,_______from a long day of work, was half napping and half watching TV in the living room. Not caring for the_______, I poured myself a glass of iced tea in the kitchen, took a lawn_______off our porch(门廊) and walked into the front yard to_______the stars.

As soon as I stepped onto the_______, I heard the sweet sound of_______floated through the air. On the hill next to our house, the neighbor’s children were_______fireflies(萤火虫), hoping to catch one in a jar. I sat down in my chair and_______them for a while. They ran very fast,________, they couldn’t seem to catch the slow moving lighting bugs.________, exhausted they both sat down in the grass and________watched the little guys flying through the air, blinking their lights on and off. I________my tea and joined them in their________. It felt so good getting to see one of many miracles lighting up my front yard on a________night. It made me feel a part of something far greater than myself.

Over the years since then, I have appreciated and________all of the glorious light in this world. I have taken it into my heart and welcomed it into my soul. I have found it in nature, books, music, animals, prayer, and most of all in the lives of those around me. I have never tried to catch this________, however. I have learned that true light and true love must come from________. It must flow freely between us and can’t be________in a jar. The next time you see some fireflies then, take a seat and enjoy their light. Let them remind you to shine your own light as well. Let them remind you that you, too, are one of________in this world.