We just need to be children again

There’s something that you can’t find on Google or Amazon, something that no Internet or any machine can provide. It’s called empathy. It’s the experience of trying to walk in other people’s shoes for a moment. It’s the experience of understanding other beings’ feelings and thoughts from their point of view. It’s the experience of listening to the other, not in order to convince them that you’re right, but to really understand what they are experiencing and feeling. Any transformative practice should start from that. And what about creation? Creation has no limit, but we can be the limit to ourselves. Everybody can dance, sing, draw, and create. We just need to be children again. What I call “experienced children.” Creating without expectation, without overthinking, without frustration, without competition. No one’s knowledge is worth more than others. And like children do, we should never cease to be amazed and look for amazement around us.

That’s my message to the practitioners. And I really feel now that I’m working with children that in creative practice we should just leave all the limits around us. Of course, it’s good to start from our experience because experience in life is everything, but not as a limit to our creative practice. And especially when you look around yourself and you’re more worried about what people think or why you’re doing something. I mean, it’s important to ask yourself a lot of things because otherwise we’re not thinking of what we’re doing. But it’s important to not use it as a limit and to stop creating. That’s for me important.