如果沒有激情，那么生命中何美之有叽赊？我不是指繪畫恋沃、建筑、美女像之類的美必指，這些東西的確各有其美囊咏；人工造作之物，如教堂塔橡、廟宇梅割、繪畫、詩(shī)歌或雕像葛家，也許很美户辞，也許乏美可陳。但有一種美癞谒，是超越感受與思想的底燎，如果你缺乏激情，就難以體會(huì)弹砚，難以領(lǐng)悟双仍，難以明白。
不要誤解了“激情”一詞桌吃，這不是個(gè)丑陋字眼朱沃，不能從市場(chǎng)上買到它，也不能坐而玄談茅诱。激情逗物，與情緒、感受毫不相干瑟俭，也不是令人仰止之物翎卓。激情，是一團(tuán)火焰尔当，能夠燒盡一切虛幻莲祸□灏玻可我們總是擔(dān)心激情的火焰椭迎，唯恐它吞沒那些我們摯愛锐帜、珍重的東西。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（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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