We would like to be quiet, but our restlessness will not
allow it. Hence we believe that for us there can be no peace except in a life
filled up with movement and activity, with speech, news, communication,
recreation, and distraction. We seek the meaning of our life in activity for
its own sake.
There is a perverse form of contemporary violence [that is] activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form of violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our inner capacity for peace.
There is a perverse form of contemporary violence [that is] activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form of violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our inner capacity for peace.
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