What will free you from the fact of violence?

What will free you from the fact of violence? Not the idea of non-violence but the fact of violence – knowing the fact of what is, not the idea of what it should not be. We have tried that, preached endlessly about non-violence; every religion talks of non-violence: ‘Be kind, be gentle, don’t hurt, love another.’ But religions haven’t produced peace; on the contrary, they have had religious wars. What can bring about an end to violence is looking at it, facing what is.