John emerged from a silent crowd to sit with the camera. Unrehearsed, unprepared, not a single question asked of him.
What came was not an explanation of kindness, but a visceral encounter with it – now held between the frames of this film.
Kindness is the only thing that ever made me feel like me.
John came to kindness through its absence.
He does not speak of kindness as an idea, a virtue, or a sentiment. He lives and breathes it, even if imperfectly, because he knows it can be “the difference between life and death.”
For John, kindness is the force that saved him, and allowed him to become himself.
Kindness is a universal language.
Kindness is a state of being.
The experience with the Inner View camera affected John so profoundly that he later had its title, A State of Kindness, tattooed on his forearm.
John is Co-Founder of Drop Dead Generous, an organization that brings kindness and generosity into the world without condition.
We are now exploring working together in some form of Kindness Revolution – with a possible gathering in England this November, and the beginnings of a film series.
one same heartbeat