信仰，能滋生热诚吗？如果没有信仰，热诚能持续吗？热诚究竟是不是生活的必需？除了信仰，是否还需要别的能量、别的生命力与驱动力？多数人都会热衷于这样那样的事物，比如热衷于音乐会、运动、野餐，等等。但如果没有持续激励，热心终究会衰竭，我们会转而热衷其他事物。那么，究竟有没有一种不依赖于信仰，可自我持续的力量与能量呢？
另外的问题是，我们真的需要什么信仰吗？如果真的需要，又是为什么？这是一个复杂难解的问题。阳光照耀，群山耸峙，江河奔流，这本不需要什么信仰。夫妻吵架拌嘴，这不需要信仰。生活中苦难重重，充满了痛苦、冲突与无尽的奢望，我们对此也无需信仰，因为这些都是事实。
只有当我们想逃避现实、遁入幻觉时，我们才需要信仰。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（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
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