Children are incredibly curious and lighthearted. I think the best thing we can do is help them understand and develop their own potential while learning to recognize and love the dualities of the world. That way, they can grow into who they are without needing to blame anything inside or outside themselves. They will fall, we all do, but they may get back up more quickly and keep moving forward as who they are.

Honestly, what interests me most is not the place, the mountains, the fishing, the guitars or even the idea of getting a group of “weirdos” together. It is the possibility of meeting people without having to perform so much. I understand what you mean when you say you are tired of superficial interactions, but lately I have been wondering whether superficiality is really something that exists “out there” in society, or whether it also depends on how deeply we are willing to meet whatever and whoever is in front of us. Maybe a conversation on a mountain can be completely superficial, and a two-minute conversation with a stranger in a grocery store can suddenly become incredibly real. Still, the image you described sounds beautiful: people making music, creating things, talking, sitting in silence, watching the sun disappear, with no particular need to become anything together. I especially like the part where you said we could “change the world or just revel in the beauty of it.” Maybe those are not two different things. Sometimes people trying very hard to change the world become another part of its noise. And sometimes a few people being genuinely present with one another may change more than they ever intended to. So yes, the idea interests me. Not so much as an escape from superficial people, but as an experiment in what happens when people allow themselves to meet without needing to appear as anything in particular. Maybe the real challenge would be bringing whatever we found on that mountain back with us... And also for me to go all the way from Brazil to USA hahaha

I find it interesting how easily spirituality can become another identity to maintain. You stop being someone who wants freedom and become “a spiritual seeker.” Then there is a path, a teacher, a method, a frequency, an awakening, a destination. And suddenly the search for freedom has created a whole new character that now needs to survive. Maybe that is why the ordinary can feel so threatening. There is nothing impressive about simply being here. Nothing to display. Nothing to achieve. Nothing that necessarily makes you more “spiritual” than the person beside you. But I would also be careful with expressions like “true enlightenment” or “true freedom.” The moment we define what real freedom must look like, haven’t we already created another image to pursue? Maybe seeking is not the problem. Maybe believing that what we seek must exist somewhere outside what is already happening is. A teacher may help. A religion may help. A book may help. A random sentence may help. Washing the dishes may help. None of them necessarily contain the truth. They may simply reveal something about the one experiencing them. And perhaps the strangest part is this: even the desire to stop seeking can become another form of seeking. So I’m not sure freedom is found by abandoning the path, following the path, finding the right teacher, or rejecting all teachers. Maybe the interesting question is: who needs to become free? And what remains when that story is no longer being defended?

One common way of understanding the word “religion” is as something that reconnects or binds us back. In this case, religions should be trying to reconnect human beings with God. But then a business opportunity appeared, my friend: people looking for easy answers on one side, and people or institutions full of certainties on the other. Demand and supply. And this kind of corruption seems to appear in almost everything human beings touch. I wouldn’t worry too much about how any particular religion operates. I would worry about strengthening my own connection with “God.” With that as the goal, any religion can serve you, or no religion at all. A random sentence can serve you. A believer can serve you. An atheist can serve you. Anything in between can serve you. Because maybe it is not really about what you experience, but about the perspective from which you experience it and the meaning you give to it. All yours. All your responsibility.