The Temple of Understanding

"Unless we meet in a deeper place of our beings together, the acts we do with one another will involve violence and thus exacerbate suffering," he says. "The presumption of me, the presumption ... that I would like you to be more compassionate, therefore I will do something to you to try to make you more compassionate." He adds: "It is as if at the level of personality, at the level at which you say, I need satsang or I need community or I want, whatever comes out of that identification with that desire ..."