Everything is a spark of that eternal radiance.
Why flee from the world in order to find it
when you yourself are already on fire?
~ from MY SECRET IS SILENCE by Adyashanti
Play is our contact with our love for life. It brings us back into our joy at being alive and shows us where our freedom is. Play moves us out of our fixed mindsets: it offers freedom from the tyranny of habit, freedom from the mundane and ordinary, from the rational and need to know and be in control. It is freedom from rigid identification with race, class, gender, and even species.