Conflict arises through contradiction...

Conflict arises through contradiction, and when there is contradiction with its misery, its turmoil, its anxiety, there is the urge to make an effort to overcome that conflict. In this circle, we are caught. Our concern is to escape from this fact, and therefore make further effort in religious practices to discipline, control, shape, comply, imitate and obey. So our mind is never quiet, is never capable of looking at anything, listening to anything fully, completely; it is always in turmoil. How can a mind in turmoil understand anything?