Michael Mendizza – Freedom, Safety & Ecstatic Learning
To learn the mind must be free. It is only the free mind that can hold or perceive something new, while the mind that is full sloughs around and usually ends up making a mess. Discovering the essence of inquiry, of lifelong learning, is essential in a world awash with content. This doesn’t mean that we suddenly go catatonic, or stumble around in some blind state of amnesia. It means simply that we suspend our fixed assumptions and beliefs. It means that we create a mental state that is free to look, to feel and to listen. Deep questions take on new significance in such a state.