It has no religious dimension. It is the answer to one question : what do I stand for?
I have one life - what have I done with it, what do I do with it ? What are the ideas and convictions that I stand for? So spirituality is to be in agreement with the ideas and convictions I decided to stand for.
Did those ideas evolve over time?
Not in my case. They were determined by the story of my family. I come from a family which was victimized by dictatorship, totalitarianism, racism. Maybe because of this family history I decided to stand for individual freedom in any field, should it be religious, political or behavioral. This is what I would define as my spirituality.
You firmed up those ideas very young?
Definitely. At the beginning it was something very spontaneous, I was very individualistic myself, including in my religious behavior. I was educated as a Jewish boy and was always getting into a fight with the rabbi, which actually is very much part of the ever-questioning Jewish tradition. I was always fighting for people being different, and myself being different. I was a contrarian and I remain a contrarian. What has changed is a more elaborate foundation for those ideas. I have enriched those ideas, but I didn’t change course.
Full interview here Indian Express
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