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As long as there is a duality between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’, trying to become or making an effort to achieve ‘what should be’ is conflict and a waste of energy.

As long as there is a duality between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’, trying to become or making an effort to achieve ‘what should be’ is conflict and a waste of energy.

From Public Talk 1 in Amsterdam, 3 May 1969

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As long as there is a duality between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’, trying to become or making an effort to achieve ‘what should be’ is conflict and a waste of energy. That is the very essence of wastage. As long as there is a conflict between the opposites, a duality, we have not enough energy to change. So, why should I have the opposite at all, as non-violence, as the ideal? The ideal is non-real; it has no meaning; it only leads to various forms of hypocrisy. Being violent and pretending not to be violent has no meaning.

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