What matters is not the ideal, but the fact and your capacity to face the fact. You cannot face the fact of your anger, your violence, as long as you have an ideal, because the ideal is fictitious, fallacious; it has no reality. To understand your violence, you must give your whole attention to it, and you cannot give your whole attention to it if you have an ideal. Idealism is merely one of the habits that we have – ‘He is a noble man, he has ideals and conforms to them’ – you know all the nonsense we talk. The simple fact is that we are violent, and it is only when we look at our violence without justification or condemnation that we can go into it. The moment one’s mind ceases to justify or condemn violence, it is already free to examine the structure of violence.

From Collected Works, Vol. 11

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