If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg.

Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals.

Haruki Murakami’s acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. via Ben Casnocha via John Lilly.