The deepest insights are often, or perhaps always, the simplest realizations. \u201cThe human only becomes human among humans.\u201d A statement of simple words from the philosopher Johann Fichte, and yet it takes a long life to unpack this sentence, to explore it, and to learn to live it. \u201cIt may be easy, but what\u2019s easy is hard,\u201d wrote the other Johann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Just as the spirit is simple and elementary, so are the paths to it. Hardly any field of life demonstrates this more impressively than eurythmy. I ask Stefan Hasler what is important in a eurythmy course, and he replies: \u201cFew words! What touches us in all these moments of shared eurythmy is the immediate and direct experience of movement\u2014the experience is what speaks.\u201d Then Stefan offers an image: \u201cJust as children are genuine and direct in their gestures and facial expressions, we adults can be the same when we experience what and how we move, when the gesture becomes an experience. We move beautifully, and that touches us.\u201d What are the conditions for this? Stefan’s answer is short, two words that seem to contradict each other: \u201cSoberness and joy.\u201d And so it becomes very simple again\u2014as with everything childlike, as with the deepest insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n