欲理解我们每个人面临的无数问题，最根本的是自我觉知。自知之明是一件最困难的事，也是人生最重要的事。自我觉知并不意味着隔绝、逃避尘世，不意味着撤出关系，离群索居。有人认为，只有通过隔绝尘世，排除喧嚣，或者参访心理学大师、神学家，或者苦读经卷典籍，我们才可以深刻地、彻底地、完全地认知自我，毫无疑问，这些看法都是错误的。
显然，自我觉知是没有终点的人生进程。为了觉知自我，人必须在行动中去领悟自己，而行动都在关系中。在孤绝与逃遁中，你不能发现自我；欲觉知自我，必须在关系中——与社会、与夫人、与丈夫、与人类的各种关系中。不过，若想发现你内心的细微反应，则需要你有一颗异常警觉的心，你的心需要有敏锐的知觉力。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Self-Knowledge Is a Process
So, to understand the innumerable problems that each one of us has, is it not essential that there be self-knowledge? And that is one of the most difficult things, self-awareness—which does not mean an isolation, a withdrawal. Obviously, to know oneself is essential; but to know oneself does not imply a withdrawal from relationship. And it would be a mistake, surely, to think that one can know oneself significantly, completely, fully, through isolation, through exclusion, or by going to some psychologist, or to some priest; or that one can learn self-knowledge through a book.
Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your responses are, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, a keenness of perception.
JANUARY 23
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