我们多数人只将激情用于一件事——性；或者，遭遇激烈悲情，并极力化解悲情。但我使用“激情”一词，意在一种心态，一种生命境界，一种精神内核状态。如果你有激情，你会有强烈的感受，那是一种高度的机敏，对于万物保持同样的敏锐：肮脏与贫穷，奢华与腐朽；树影婆娑，小鸟啁啾，河水潺湲；夜色下池水如镜，映照着满天星辉……我们需要强烈地感受到这一切。若没有激情，生命就会变得空虚、肤浅，无甚意义。如果你不能看见这绿树之美并爱上它，如果你不能对这棵树产生深切的关爱，那么你是了无生机的。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
A Passion for Everything
For most of us, passion is employed only with regard to one thing, sex; or you suffer passionately and try to resolve that suffering. But I am using the word passion in the sense of a state of mind, a state of being, a state of your inward core, if there is such a thing, that feels very strongly, that is highly sensitive—sensitive alike to dirt, to squalor, to poverty, and to enormous riches and corruption, to the beauty of a tree, of a bird, to the flow of water, and to a pond that has the evening sky reflected upon it. To feel all this intensely, strongly, is necessary. Because without passion life becomes empty, shallow, and without much meaning. If you cannot see the beauty of a tree and love that tree, if you cannot care for it intensely, you are not living.
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