如果没有激情，那么生命中何美之有？我不是指绘画、建筑、美女像之类的美，这些东西的确各有其美；人工造作之物，如教堂、庙宇、绘画、诗歌或雕像，也许很美，也许乏美可陈。但有一种美，是超越感受与思想的，如果你缺乏激情，就难以体会，难以领悟，难以明白。
不要误解了“激情”一词，这不是个丑陋字眼，不能从市场上买到它，也不能坐而玄谈。激情，与情绪、感受毫不相干，也不是令人仰止之物。激情，是一团火焰，能够烧尽一切虚幻。可我们总是担心激情的火焰，唯恐它吞没那些我们挚爱、珍重的东西。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Beauty Beyond Feeling
Without passion how can there be beauty? I do not mean the beauty of pictures, buildings, painted women, and all the rest of it. They have their own forms of beauty. A thing put together by man, like a cathedral, a temple, a picture, a poem, or a statue may or may not be beautiful. But there is a beauty which is beyond feeling and thought and which cannot be realized, understood, or known if there is not passion.
So do not misunderstand the word passion. It is not an ugly word; it is not a thing you can buy in the market or talk about romantically. It has nothing whatever to do with emotion, feeling. It is not a respectable thing; it is a flame that destroys anything that is false. And we are always so afraid to allow that flame to devour the things that we hold dear, the things that we call important.
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