If you don’t know how your mind reacts, if your mind is not aware of its own activities, you will never find out what society is. You may read books on sociology, you may study social sciences, but if you don’t know how your own mind works, you cannot actually understand what society is, because your mind is part of society; it is society. Your reactions, your beliefs, your going to a temple, the clothes you wear, the things you do and don’t do and what you think – society is made up of all this; it is the replica of what is going on in your mind. So your mind is not separate from society; it is not distinct from your culture, your religion, your class divisions, or the ambitions and conflicts of the many. All this is society, and you are part of it. There is no ‘you’ separate from society.

From Think on These Things

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