strings: Is it not, therefore, an obvious fact that what I am in my relationship to another creates society and that, without radically transforming myself, there can be no transformation of the essential function of society ? When we look to a system for the transforrnat.ion of society, we are merely evading thc question, because a system cannot transform man; man always transforms the system, which history shows. Until I, in my relationship to you, understand myself, I am the. cause of chaos, rnisery, destruction, fear, brutality. Understanding myself is not a matter of time; I can understand myself at this very moment. If I say, ' 'l shall understand myself to-morrow", I am bringing in chaos and misery, my action is destructive. The moment I say that I "shall" understand, I bring in the tituc clement and so am alrcady caught up in the wave of confusion and destruction. Understanding is now, not to-morrow. To-morrow is for the lazy mind, the sluggish mind, the mind that is not intcrcstcd.