To know peace man has to experience conflict. He has to go through the heroic stage before he can act as a sage. He has to be a victim of his passions before he can rise above them. To arouse man’s passionate nature, to hand him over to the devil and put him to the supreme test, there has to be a conflict involving something more than country, political principles, ideologies, etc. Man in revolt against his own cloying nature-that is real war. And that is a bloodless war which goes on forever, under the peaceful name of evolution. In this war man ranges himself once and for all on the side of the angels. Though he may, as an individual, be defeated, he can be certain of the outcome-because the whole universe is with him.
— Henry Miller (via thisfuckingbetterwork)
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