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0一月三十日 你就是世界
正确的思想必须奠基在自我了解之上。若是不了解自己，你的思想不可能有基础；缺少了自我认识，思想不可能真确。
你和外在世界并不是两种不同的存有，各自有自己的问题；其实你就是这个世界，你的问题正是世界的问题。你也许受到环境的影响而发展出了某种倾向，但基本上你和别人并没有什么差异。我们的内在活动都十分类似，我们都受到贪婪、不当的意志、恐惧及野心等的驱策。我们的信念、渴望和期待都有共通的背景。我们是一体的，但我们往往被政治、经济及各种偏见分割成四分五裂的情况。伤害别人等于在摧毁自己。你便是这整体的核心，若是不了解自己，就无法认识实相了。
我们在理智上都知道万物是一体的，但我们把这种认知和真实的情感区隔开了，因此永远也无法领悟这不凡的境界。
January 30
Self-knowledge
Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought; without self-knowledge what you think is not true.
You and the world are not two different entities with separate problems; you and the world are one. Your problem is the world’s problem. You may be the result of certain tendencies, of environmental influences, but you are not different fundamentally from another. Inwardly we are very much alike; we are all driven by greed, ill will, fear, ambition, and so on. Our beliefs, hopes, aspirations have a common basis. We are one; we are one humanity, though the artificial frontiers of economics and politics and prejudice divide us. If you kill another, you are destroying yourself. You are the center of the whole, and without understanding yourself you cannot understand reality.
We have an intellectual knowledge of this unity but we keep knowledge and feeling in different compartments and hence we never experience the extraordinary unity of man.
