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"Training gibt nicht das Gefühl, man sei in der Lage, etwas zu tun, man habe bestimmte Kenntnisse angesammelt. Training ist eine Begegnung mit der Realität, die man gewählt hat: Was immer man auch tut, soll man mit seinem ganzen Selbst tun."
Eugenio Barba
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ENGAGEMENT and CONSCIOUSNESS 2011
COURAGE - every moment is a beginning!
In our individual life there are moments when we wake up by going through a transformation, crossing a threshold – or by actually facing such a step. Yet this is not just an individual phenomenon. Our world, humanity at large and also every community, that hit the road together can perceive such threshold moments as well – sometimes being more, sometimes less aware of it. These are magical, exiting, testing, swamping, sometimes dangerous moments – however we always encounter our shadows, fears and patterns of sticking to old structures at this threshold.
At their core these moments are facing us with the questions: Do I have the courage to do the next step? Courage – not the absence of fear, but the awareness of courage being more important than fear, so that I, we, our world can change: so that something new, something unknown may begin. Courage – the struggling and the yes for a future.
Every Moment is a Beginning
For an awake consciousness every single moment can be such a moment at a threshold – the begin of a new reality. Yet normally we are asleep. We avoid change, we live in a world in the way it appears to be given. How do we stay awake? How does an encounter becomes a point of awakening instead of a lullaby? How do we develop a keen mind, a wide awake perception and sure action so that something new can be born? Just like a butterfly evolves out of a caterpillar. Though in the human world and facing the burning world events that challenge our courage every day this does not happen all by itself but requires the spiritedness of our hearts, the clarity of our thinking and the free power of our will.
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