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Reflections on reading Augustine's confession

The first feeling after reading Augustine's Confessions (915 words) Augustine's Confessions runs through a way of seeking truth, which is a reflection on life. People in life always need a spiritual pillar - faith. Some people may say that I have no faith and live a free life. But do you live to the full? We can even say, "no faith is a faith.". It is difficult and painful for a person to pursue his faith. Especially when people have doubts about their beliefs, there will be endless troubles and depression. Augustine's long pursuit of truth is a vivid illustration. When he was young, he indulged in lust, believed in Manichaeism and opposed Christ; later, he withdrew from Manichaeism and converted to Christianity with the help of his mother and friends. He deeply reflected on his life, especially on his own fall into the quagmire of lust and the introspection of that period of dissolute life, let us realize such a devout person.

Augustine's pain stems from his dissatisfaction with the temporary and limited existence. In the doubt of Manichaeism, Augustine was able to get rid of Manichaeism's material form of God and truth. He realized that the noumenon of truth and existence not only transcends space, but also transcends time. Transcending time and space is the basic characteristic of spirit. True immortality and eternity can only be spiritual. Because the category of space-time always means finite, diverse and changeable, it is only used to describe the part that constitutes the whole, describing the process from nothing to being, and then from being to nothing. But they can't do anything about the whole, and what "I" yearns for is the infinity of the whole, so they can't relieve the pain and anxiety I feel about the limited existence. Therefore, only the spirit can comfort the soul.

Therefore, Augustine chose the Almighty God God to extricate himself. In his view, those who seek external joy are easy to fall into nothingness and indulge in visible and instantaneous things. There is no need for God to forget everything but God.

Augustine refuted astrology in the confessions. He thought that when astrologers used astrology to make divination for great men, it was only a coincidence. Then when he was wandering in the garden, he heard a voice calling, "take it up and read it." when he picked up the Bible, he turned to the page: "do not feast on drunkenness, do not indulge in lust Don't compete and be jealous. Always support Jesus Christ. Don't make arrangements for your body to indulge your desires Is it a coincidence? In my opinion, this is a coincidence, an accident, and a necessity. Chinese Buddhism emphasizes "Epiphany". The so-called "putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot" is short-lived. However, if you can get rid of the ostentatious pleasure, you will suddenly feel relieved. How comfortable it is. Augustine is so hard to find his spiritual home in God.

After reading Augustine's Confessions (1674 words), I read some of Augustine's confessions. O has a detailed recollection of his childhood thoughts and behaviors, and has confessed and analyzed his evil deeds since childhood. For example, when he was 16 years old, he and his friends went to steal pears from neighboring trees. His reflection on this was: "I don't covet these fruits, because I have many better ones. I steal these fruits and throw them away. I steal them just to taste the guilt of stealing and enjoy the pleasure of crime. ". Stealing is not for the thing itself, but for enjoying it. It is normal for young people to have this kind of psychology. It is said that some foreign stars also like to steal small things from supermarkets in order to enjoy the fun of stealing, which is quite interesting. Some people say that stars are abnormal. From another point of view, stars have children like mentality. And from the analysis of this matter, it is quite interesting. If you steal small things in the supermarket, if you don't get caught, you will feel successful. If you are caught, you will not be able to commit a crime by imposing a fine. In any case, the stars do not lack the money. Stars are good at calculating. This kind of calculation is the same as that of teenagers. Augustine said, "what pleasure did I have in this theft? Is it I who maliciously imitates the excellent God? In fact, the reason is that I have no ability to break the law. I just want to have the pleasure of prisoners doing forbidden things, get a sense of deception, and will not be punished immediately after committing a crime. " This kind of theft may not be punished. Even if the punishment is small enough, it can be tolerated, but it greatly satisfies the feeling that teenagers or stars dare to commit crimes, and obtains the happy feeling that ordinary people dare not do. Therefore, these seemingly unreasonable or normal people do not seem to be worthy of things, in fact, they also hide a kind of intelligent calculation.

Augustine's thorough psychological analysis of his youth also said, "if I only enjoy the fun of eating fruit, I can do it alone, and there is no need to do it in front of my peers. So my pleasure is not in fruit, but in sin, in the crime of cooperation. Haha, Augustine is really a quite thorough psychoanalyst, who makes a multi angle analysis of his juvenile behavior, which is reasonable. After reading Su Tong's "the age of tattoos", those teenagers set up gangs, fight, kill and even die. In fact, they have similar psychology, but the actual material interests are not important.

Augustine analyzed himself in order to repent, to make his mind pure, to let his heart completely to God. I don't want to think about these ugly things any more. What I need now is you, my God, you have justice and purity, and you can enjoy a happy life of incomparable peace around you. Who put into your arms, who will no longer worry, can enjoy a perfect life in the highest good. But when I was young, I was far away from you, away from your support, and went astray I admire Augustine's analysis of himself, but I don't like his conclusion and purpose. What is my analysis and conclusion? I think the growth of a person is a process, and it is diverse. Everyone is different. From a certain point of view, the theft and rebellion of Augustine in his youth is also a process of his growth. Maybe he was a good boy, and he listened to his mother's instruction since he was a child, and he was converted to the Almighty and the best God in his heart as he grew up. Maybe Augustine, like many people, has remained nameless all his life and left nothing in history? It is also difficult to have such a thorough understanding of the mind.

In addition, I think that the reason why young people often do such things secretly is that they share the same natural disposition as Augustine's later analysis and confession of himself. That is, people have an inherent nature to make themselves independent in the world. Let yourself become a different, independent self. When he was young, he was taught by his parents and the people around him to study Latin that he didn't like and to do many things that he didn't like but had to do. At this time, he felt that he was living for the environment of others. But to steal and do those evil things that have experienced treason, although it is not allowed by the secular world, has proved to himself that he has the courage and courage to do what he wants to do, and he can become himself, not the self that others ask for. When he rebelled against himself many years later, he analyzed his past evils, confessed to God and left words. In fact, it is also to prove yourself, prove that you can be yourself, and let yourself do what you think you should do. Others do not have such repentance, and when they realize it, they bravely do it. This is the achievement of self from another angle. It's just that stealing in adolescence is a superficial rebellion, which makes you become yourself at a shallow level. However, the profound analysis and confession of myself after middle age is actually a deeper rebellion, which makes me a new independent self at a deeper level.

In Augustine's view, stealing in his youth is a crime and a mistake, and his reflection and analysis after his middle age is towards the truth. But I don't think so. They are all a process of the free growth of one's thoughts. Mistakes in youth are not real mistakes, nor is reflection and confession after middle age true. It only represents the depth of one's own level, and it is also some stages that a person's free development of thought will go through.

Impressions of reading Augustine Confessions (1410 words): a good book will move you, make you feel ethereal and elegant, will let you never tire of reading, will make you laugh. Reading is one of the best ways of human learning, since the beginning of its own books, human beings have inherited culture and opened their minds in reading. The reading of some famous literary work is the essence of human civilization, which is worthy of future research and discovery. I hope it will be helpful for you!

Augustine's confessions is the first literary book I read in University. I don't like reading literature books in college. I remember that teacher Ren taught us western foreign literature at that time. At that time, the examination requirement was to ask us to read a Western masterpiece on preschool education. Forced by the pressure of the examination, I chose confessions, but the later study changed my previous ideas and gradually accepted literature books.

The first time I saw an author shed so many tears in the book, which left more or less long and sad tears for every woman he met. Rousseau's emotional sensitivity and vulnerability was amazing. At least before he was twenty-five years old, his IQ was no different from that of most people, but his EQ was far lower than that of ordinary people. He didn't know whether it was a defect in the book. Rousseau was generous in writing about Mrs. Warren's beauty and character, as well as his own and her lust. The reader is dizzy. He still has a basket of emotions to express. After breaking with the encyclopedia school, he also breaks with almost all the aristocratic protectors and social circles. His confession is often "because I have a crystal heart". It is not painful or itchy. I always feel that Rousseau himself is to blame, even if he has written a confession, It doesn't mean that his confession is completely true. He thinks he has done it, but it is still difficult to convince me.

For example, the reason why Diderot broke up with Diderot was that there was a sentence in his new book that seemed to insinuate that the hermit's life was incorrect and offended him who was retiring in seclusion. Rousseau began to criticize Diderot in his book. When it came to a complete break, Madame epinay, another protector of Rousseau, gave him his retreat. Of course, later, he broke up with this lady because of some trivial matters,

Rousseau's life before and after retiring from seclusion was extremely important, which laid the foundation for one of the greatest thinkers