strings: After all, if one is seeking peace one can find it very easily. Onc can devote oneself blindly to some kind of cause, to an idea, and take shelter •there. Surely that does not solve the problem. Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. So we must find, must we not ? , what it is, inwardly, as well as outwardly, that each one of us wants. If we are clear on that matter, then Vive don't have to go anywhere, to any teacher, to any church, to any organization. Therefore our difficulty is, to be clear in ourselves regarding our intention, is it not? Can we be clear? And does that clarity come through searching, through trying to find out what others say, from the highest teacher to the ordinary preacher in a church round the corner? Have you got to go to somebody to find out? Yet that is what we are doing, is it not? We read innumerable books, we attend many meetings and discuss, we join various organizations trying thereby to find a remedy to the conflict, to the miseries in our lives. Or, if we don't do all that, we think we have found; that is we say that a particular organization, a particular teacher, a particular book satisfies us; we have föund everything we want in that; and we remain in that, crystallized and enclosed.