Jacob Urlich 🌍Most of us are apt to think that through legislation, through mere organisation, or through leadership, the problems of war and peace and other human problems can be solved. As we do not want to be responsible, individually, for the inner and outer turmoil in our lives, we look to authorities, groups and mass action. Through these outward methods, one may have temporary peace, but one can have that abiding, lasting peace only when the individual understands himself and his relationship with another, which makes society. Peace is within and not without; there can only be peace and happiness in the world when the individual, who is the world, sets about definitely to alter the causes within oneself which produce confusion, sorrow, hate, and so on. I want to deal with these causes and how to change them, deeply and lastingly. The world about us is in constant flux, constant change; there is incessant sorrow and pain. Amidst this mutation and conflict, can there be lasting peace and happiness, independent of all circumstances? This peace and happiness can be discovered, hewn out of whatever circumstances the individual finds himself in.
From Collected Works, Vol. 3