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Tim Keller: 我发现，如果把人生的意义建立在工作上，最终会感到空虚和痛苦。我憎恨我在日光之下辛勤劳作的一切，因为我必须把它们留给后来者，而且我无法从中获得真正的满足感。即使我努力工作并取得成功，我仍然感到空虚，因为我无法逃脱死亡和被遗忘的命运。我意识到，所有的劳动和所有的成就都源于人对邻居的嫉妒，这让我更加痛苦。我努力工作，试图证明自己，但最终我发现这并不能给我带来真正的快乐和满足感。我开始反思，人生的意义到底是什么？难道我们所做的一切都只是在犁水吗？ Stephen Gould: 我认为，生命本没有意义，我们必须自己构建意义。我们之所以存在，是因为一些偶然的事件，例如彗星撞击地球。我们无法从自然中解读生命的意义，因此我们必须自己创造意义。这种观点看似令人恐惧，但实际上是解放和令人振奋的，因为我们可以自由地选择自己的人生道路。 Karl Marx: 我认为，劳动是人类自我实现的试金石。人通过劳动来改造世界，把自己的印记刻在上面，通过工作使它成为自己的。 Henry Ford: 我认为，工作是种族的救赎，在身体上、道德上和社会上。工作不仅仅让我们谋生，它还让我们获得生活。 Studs Terkel: 我认为，工作本质上是关于暴力的，是对精神和身体的暴力。工作会让人感到羞辱和痛苦，甚至会导致精神崩溃。对于我们中的许多人来说，能够度过一天就已经是胜利了。

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In Ecclesiastes, the author takes the position of a practical secularist. And he asks, “If this life is all there is, then is life meaningless?”

The writer says if this life is all there is, if there’s no God and no meaning that you have to submit to, then you’re free to construct your own meaning. And so, he sets out to build meaning by living a cause-based life, and then by living a pleasure and beauty-based life. When he finds those both to be meaningless and burdensome, he decides to create a work-based life, to let work and career be an organizing principle in his life.

In doing this, he finds three things: 1) that a life of work is not worth it, 2) why it’s not worth it, and 3) what is worth it.

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 23, 2003. Series: When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough. Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:17-26.

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