Sunday, August 23, 2009

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The “what is”

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Living is a process of conflict in which there is violence; that is “what is”, the fact. The opposite is “non-violence”, a state in which there is no conflict, no violence. The man who is violent is trying to become non-violent. It may take him ten years, or it may take him all the rest of his life to become non-violent, but in the meantime he is sowing the seeds of violence. So there is the fact of violence and the non-fact, which is non-violence, which is the opposite. In this contradiction there is conflict: the man trying to become something. When you banish the opposite, not try to become non-violent, then you can actually face violence. Then you have energy which is not dissipated through conflict with the opposite. Then you the energy, the passion, to find out “what is”. You are the World, p 78

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