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The action of opinion creates a contradiction: ‘I must, I must not,’ control, justification, condemnation.

The action of opinion creates a contradiction: ‘I must, I must not,’ control, justification, condemnation.

From Small Group Discussion 4 in Saanen, 2 August 1963

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The action of opinion creates a contradiction: ‘I must, I must not,’ control, justification, condemnation. Such activity makes for superficiality and endless struggle. I see the truth of it, not just the verbal understanding of it, so I drop it, completely drop it, without trying to find a motive for dropping it. I drop it because I see the truth of it. Then there is the fact. What is the action that comes out of the fact?

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