We are society; we are not independent of society. We are the result of the environment, of our religion, of our education, of the climate, of the food we eat, the reactions and the innumerable repetitive activities that we indulge in every day. That is our life. And the society in which we live is part of that life. Society is the relationship between human beings. Society is cooperation. Society, as it is, is the result of man’s greed, hatred, ambition, competition, brutality, cruelty, ruthlessness – and we live in that pattern. To understand society, not intellectually, not merely theoretically, but actually, we have to come into contact directly with that fact, which is, a human being, that is you, is the result of this social environment, its economic pressure, religious upbringing, and so on. To come into contact with anything directly is not to verbalise it, but to look at it.

From What Are You Looking For?

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