TO BE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE ORIGINARY INNOCENCE
In communication with originary innocence.
'Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center, So we lost our center and now we have to find it again.'
Anais Nin
As for the book's title:
Question 25: What's the reason you jump?
"When I'm jumping, it's as if my feelings are going upwards to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky is enough to make my heart quiver. When I'm jumping I can feel my body parts really well, too - my bounding legs and my clapping hands - and that makes me feel so, so good...
So by jumping up and down, it's as if I'm shaking loose the ropes that are tyingup my body. When I jump, I feel lighter, and I think the reason my body is drawn skywards is that the motion makes me want to change into a bird and fly off to some faraway place.
But constrained both by ourselves and by the people around us, all we can do is tweet-tweet, flap our wings, and hop around in a cage. Ah, if only I could just flap my wings and soar away, into the big blue yonder, over the hills and far away!'
- Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump
