名相，并非事物本身；“激情”这个词，不是激情本身。你应去感受并沉浸内在的激情，不施加任何意志、指令，不预设任何目的，去聆听这个叫作欲望的东西，聆听充斥于内心、或强或弱的欲望。此时，你会看到，当你压抑欲望时，当你扭曲欲望时，当你想实现欲望时，当你想采取行动修正欲望时，当你对欲望持有见解时，你会发现那是对激情的巨大伤害。
多数人已经丧失了激情。也许你年青时曾经有过激情——发财，出名，过有产日子，过体面生活——哪怕这只是内心含糊地念叨。社会，其实就是你这样子，总是压抑激情，所以，世人被迫进行自我调整，变得暮气沉沉，虽受人尊敬，却没有星点的激情。于是，他融入了社会，成了毫无激情的社会一分子。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Lost Passion
The word is not the thing. The word passion is not passion. To feel that and to be caught in it without any volition or directive or purpose, to listen to this thing called desire, to listen to your own desires which you have, plenty of them, weak or strong—when you do that, you will see what a tremendous damage you do when you suppress desire, when you distort it, when you want to fulfill it, when you want to do something about it, when you have an opinion about it.
Most people have lost this passion. Probably one has had it once in one’s youth—to become a rich man, to have fame, and to live a bourgeois or a respectable life; perhaps a vague muttering of that. And society—which is what you are—suppresses that. And so one has to adjust oneself to you who are dead, who are respectable, who have not even a spark of passion; and then one becomes a part of you, and thereby loses this passion.
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