War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life, is it not ? War is merely an outward expression of our state, an enlargement of our daily action. It is more spectacular , more bloody , more destructive, but it is the collective result of individual activities. Therefore you and I are responsible for war and what can we do to stop it ? Obviously the ever - impending war cannot be stopped by you and me, because it is already in movement ; it is already taking place, though at present chiefly on the psychological level. As it is already in movement, it cannot be stopped – the issues are too many, too great, and are already committed. But you and I , seeing that the house is on fire, can understand the causes of that fire, can go away from it and build in a new place with different materials that are not combustible, that will not produce other wars. That is all that we can do. You and I can see what creates wars , and if we are interested in stopping wars, then we can begin to transform ourselves , who are the causes of war.
Circumstances can be controlled by us, because we have created the circumstances. Society is the product of relationship of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes ; merely to rely on legislation, on compulsion , for the transformation of outward society, while remaining inwardly corrupt, while continuing inwardly to seek power , position, domination, is to destroy the outward, however carefully and scientifically built. That which is inward is always overcoming the outward.
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