信仰，能为生命赋予热情吗？离开信仰，热情还能持续吗？热情究竟是不是必需的？或者还需要其他能量、其他的活力与驱动力？多数人都有这样那样的酷爱，比如热衷于音乐会、运动、野餐等等，但如果没有持续激励，热情终究会衰竭，我们会转而热衷于其他事物。那么，究竟有没有一种不依赖于信仰，可自发持续的力量与能量呢？
另外的问题是，我们真的需要信仰吗？如果真的需要，又是为什么？这是一个复杂的问题。宇宙间有阳光、群山、江河，这用不着我们信仰；夫妻吵架拌嘴，这无需我们去信仰；生活中苦难重重，充满了痛苦、冲突与无尽的企图心，我们对此也不必信仰，因为这些都是事实。
只有当我们想逃避现实、遁入虚幻时，我们才需要信仰。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
What We Believe
Does belief give enthusiasm? Can enthusiasm sustain itself without a belief, and is enthusiasm at all necessary, or is a different kind of energy needed, a different kind of vitality, drive? Most of us have enthusiasm for something or other. We are very keen, very enthusiastic about concerts, about physical exercise, or about going to a picnic. Unless it is nourished all the time by something or other, it fades away and we have a new enthusiasm for other things. Is there a self-sustaining force, energy, which doesn’t depend on a belief?
The other question is: Do we need a belief of any kind, and if we do, why is it necessary? That’s one of the problems involved. We don’t need a belief that there is sunshine, the mountains, the rivers. We don’t need a belief that we and our wives quarrel. We don’t have to have a belief that life is a terrible misery with its anguish, conflict, and constant ambition; it is a fact.
But we demand a belief when we want to escape from a fact into an unreality.
FEBRUARY 9
