“The most horrible thing you can do when somebody is bawling you out is look at the calmness of his soul. Try it sometime. Just regard how peaceful he is. He’s liable to go into an hypnotic trance like you were a snake. …
“Now, if you’re very worried about getting your body hit by his violence, you’ll get hit. Because you’ve consented to be hit. But what if you haven’t consented to being hit? … Didn’t seem to be part of the game and it didn’t become part of the game.
“The game is what you make it.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Violence delivered on 6 July 1958. This can be found in the Clearing Congress lectures. Track 14.
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