IN 1934 KRISHNAMURTI SAID, “Why do you want to be students of books instead of students of life? Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and its cruelties, and then you will find out what is true.” Repeatedly he pointed out that the “book of life,” which is ever changing with a vitality that cannot be held in thought, was the only one worth “reading,” all others being filled with secondhand information. “The story of mankind is in you, the vast experience, the deep-rooted fears, anxieties, sorrow, pleasure and all the beliefs that man has accumulated throughout the millennia. You are that book.”

上述是一段的導言，出自：

The Book of Life

Daily Meditations

with J.Krishnamurti

這說法有許多人說過，AI：

The phrase “you are that book” doesn’t match a single well-known quote exactly. The closest matches are:

• “You are the books you read” — attributed to Ebimoboere Boleigha and also to designer Jac Vanek, though it circulates as a common aphorism without a single definitive originator.
• You Are That — a spiritual book by Gangaji, in which she teaches that one’s true nature is limitless consciousness: “you are that!” 

華人似乎沒有這樣想法，那是被教導成這樣的一種社會結構，而你，是這個社會的一員，結構是這樣：君臣、父子、兄友、弟恭。當時似乎沒有用商業這個詞，更沒有獨立於外這固事。因此這本書就是自己，是西方文明，依循著耶和華造人這個觀念而來：大自然交人管理。

你有信仰，你就是一本書，內容是自己用生命的際遇填寫。許多人是記載社會如何影響他，很少看到他如何回應這個社會。有，發了一大堆，都是人人以為的事，自己有矛盾，是一直藏在心底，從未表達過。

現在耶和華與你同在，新的一頁，來，自己寫。

註：插圖 Ms Fong