Action based on an idea, which is thought, breeds discord because you are approximating action to an idea. Therefore, you are not acting but approximating that action according to the idea. You will find, if you ponder deeply for yourself, that action is not an idea. There is action without motive, and it is only the religious mind that has gone very deeply into itself, that has inquired profoundly within itself, that can act without that idea, without motive because it has no centre, no entity as the thinker directing action. It is not chaotic action. Self-knowledge, or learning about oneself every day, brings about psychologically, inwardly, a new mind because you have denied the old mind. Through self-knowledge you have denied it; you have denied your conditioning totally. That can be denied totally only when the mind is aware of its own operations, how it works, what it thinks, what it says, what the motives are.