Though we now have so much knowledge in so many fields, it has not stopped man’s brutality to man, even among those of the same group, nation or religion. Perhaps knowledge is blinding us to another factor that is the real solution to all this chaos and misery. For most people, knowledge is the accumulation of words or the strengthening of their prejudices and beliefs. Words and thoughts are the framework in which the self-concept exists. This concept contracts or expands through experience and knowledge, but the hard core of the self remains, and mere knowledge or learning can never dissolve it. Revolution is the voluntary dissolution of this core, of this concept, whereas action born of self-perpetuating knowledge can only lead to greater misery and destruction.

From Commentaries on Living Series 2

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