我们每个人都面临着无数问题，要想理解这些问题，最重要的是自知之明。但自我觉知是一件最困难的事，同时也是人生的要事。自我觉知并不意味着与世隔绝、逃避红尘，也不意味着撤出关系，离群索居。有人认为，只有通过隔绝尘世，排除喧嚣，或者参访心理学大师、僧侣神父，或者苦读经卷典籍，我们才可以深刻地、彻底地、完全地认知自我。毫无疑问，这些看法都是错误的。
显然，自我觉知就是人生进程，而不是目标。为了觉知自我，你必须在实际行动中领悟自己，而行动就是关系。觉悟自我，并不在隔绝与遁世中，而是在关系中——与社会、与夫人、与丈夫、与人类的各种关系中。不过，若想看清你内心的反应模式，你需要有异常警觉的心，需要有敏锐的知觉力。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Self-Knowledge Is a Process
So, to understand the innumerable problems that each one of us has, is it not essential that there be self-knowledge? And that is one of the most difficult things, self-awareness—which does not mean an isolation, a withdrawal. Obviously, to know oneself is essential; but to know oneself does not imply a withdrawal from relationship. And it would be a mistake, surely, to think that one can know oneself significantly, completely, fully, through isolation, through exclusion, or by going to some psychologist, or to some priest; or that one can learn self-knowledge through a book.
Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your responses are, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, a keenness of perception.
JANUARY 23
