“And we are enjoying it very much today,” Mr. Gnesda said.

And he was happy to learn more. “It brought me closer to that in a nice way, and that’s very insightful,” he said. “It’s incredibly aesthetic, and ultimately it hits you very personally. So this is a very, very nice encounter with a very, very different culture.”

Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and through music and dance aims to revive 5,000 years of China’s divinely inspired civilization.

“The message of the song is that we humans are most likely to limit ourselves. The singer expressed that to us beautifully. And it’s very reassuring that it’s the same in China as it is in Europe.”

He spoke about personal potential that the performance presented.

“I think that very often we humans put barriers on ourselves and don’t even get the chance to develop our potentials. And for me, this song was quite a strong appeal to bring the inner potentials to unfold.”

“That also comes naturally in the [song]. It’s simply about, I think, at the beginning of the song there was some line, that every human being comes into the world with a mission and that souls come into the world to do a mission here. And if they don’t do it, then they keep coming back. And I have a lot of sympathy for that thought.”

He felt the message was that we come from heaven and we all have a mission. “I believe the original source of man comes from heaven,“ he said. ”And heaven is on earth with it, because a little bit of that heaven is carried by everyone in us. And that is here on earth. And everyone has a little bit different mission.”

When I think about the song and the performance that we saw today, it’s always the same things that it’s about. It’s about love. It’s about being together, about living with each other, getting along with each other, bringing out what’s inside of each one of us, no matter what part of the earth we are born on.”