I watched this yesterday so it’s hard to remember all the details but I totally agree on the nature of education and art.

These days I’m trying not to focus to much on the wrongs that have been done (spent the last 10 years as a kind of activist so it is very challenging at times), and more on how immune we can become by following our greatest passions. The victim mentality ran so deep in me and so I find that by fishing for the good and the divine in these corrupt and sometimes horrible systems can actually be quite healing, so long as I stay clear on what’s what and don’t fall into the trap of the narrative. There are lessons we can learn in everything, and so I try to hold my judgement enough to learn everything I can, even if I know that something is wrong.

I whenever I see something awful in the world, I look for it in myself and try to heal it inside of me. It’s always there, although sometimes it’s tricky to spot. The desire to control, the fear of uncertainty, the vanity of wanting people to pay attention, A tendency towards labels to desperately try and simplify and understand the world.

At least in my own experience I can always see how doing this kind of work improves my relationship with life and sometimes even protects me from unpleasant things that the people around me. It increases my capacity for love too. Of course it doesn’t always go so smoothly, the mirror of life is so complex and hard to understand at times.

But anyway, we are doing the work (and more and more people are) and so I have lots of faith that things will look more and more like the world of our dreams, even if it’s very hard to see it sometimes.