Naré Mkrtchyan

We are each other's mirrors. And when we reflect to one another our truth, we become so much stronger. And that's why I love what Holomovement is doing and the Purpose Lab, because this way we're going to become united and get so much stronger. The more truthful we are to our purpose and the truth, the more others are going to find their truth. It's a vibration, right? Everything is vibration. So we just have to vibrate on the level of truth. The higher you go, the more I'm going to go with you, especially if we're in the same field. So it's going to have this ripple effect.

You will find the purpose in the silence, in every sense of the word, literal sense of external silence, but also inner silence. You have to find inner silence, and that also is something I'm currently working on. So I think everything that the world is advertising us to do, just think of that and do the complete opposite. Don't numb your feelings. Don't go watching TV 24/7. Don't play video games.

I am recognizing my shadow and I am seeing the darkness. Everything is coming out, and I'm just sitting with it with love and acceptance and compassion and constantly reminding myself, go to the love. While I'm making a documentary about peace that has to do with our external world, I'm actually in the process of finding my own inner peace. But what I feel as a director is if I'm going to tell the audience find peace, create peace, then I myself have to be the guinea pig who has to find inner peace. So I'm literally currently going through a lot of hardships trying to find this inner peace.

But then there came a day when I accepted that I'm not okay. And I accepted that I don't need to be strong anymore. I feel like when you're going against your path, it's so difficult. And when you're going and serving your true mission, everything just unfolds. And sometimes it's so easy that you can't even believe how easy it is. But that's how it's supposed to be. And in a strange way, it's like a play. But we are always told not to play. We're told to be serious about it. I think when everything flows together, that's when magic happens. And things can only flow together if you're truly on your path. That's the secret.

In order to hear the whisper, you have to constantly be able to silence the noise. And I think it's done through meditation, through being around people like you, because we are each other's mirrors. And when we reflect to one another our truth, we become so much stronger. I think everybody has a purpose and they all know their purpose, and they just need to be able to silence the noise as much as possible because the purpose is in the heart, and the heart doesn't scream. The heart whispers. And in order to listen to the whisper, you have to use tools such as meditation. You have to be alone with yourself.

I think we need to be brave, be courageous. We have to be brave to serve love. So yeah, right now I'm on the path of my journey where I'm working on being brave, to live my life courageously and to fully trust my path. But imagine if we all courageously were on our path and we all served our purpose and we all struggled together but we kept going and we just reminded one another that it's possible. You're going to do this. It's okay. Keep going, keep going.

While I was making this documentary, I also realized the pain of what we're doing to our mother earth. Because to me, war is not about territory. It's about land. It's about soil. And the soil is our mother earth. So the film very much for me currently is actually about peace. It was in the making of this documentary about war that I realized that I need to serve something even bigger than the war, what we're doing to our planet. Where this led me is to the understanding that enemy is such a lie. The idea of enemy is a lie. And what's interesting is even when I'm dealing with the topic of war currently, because my family tree was cut off for being dehumanized, I refuse to dehumanize anybody, even if it's the so-called enemy. But I just want to approach them with love, which is everything I have towards them.

I always wanted to tell stories. But as I grew older, I realized that I can do this through filmmaking. So in a weird way, I guess I always knew my purpose, but then I found the tools in order to shape my purpose into physical reality. I think filmmaking is like a shamanic experience because you are telling stories and you can alchemize pain into healing. That was my purpose that was given to me, and to fully embrace it and understand that the purpose that is given to you has nothing to do with you. It's coming from a higher place. And never let the little self stop it because it has nothing to do with you. Has nothing to do with my identity. It's just a gift. It's something that was given to me and I have to serve it.

Honestly, I still am struggling, and I feel like I should mention it because that's part of the human experience, and I'm currently still struggling every single day. It's a battle between love and fear. It's a battle of not falling back into the old patterns. When something is telling me in my head, no, this is all a lie. Why do you even believe in miracles? You are such a child. You need to be logical. It's me having to connect to my higher self that says, don't listen to the noise. Go to the whisper. Go to the whisper. Go to the whisper. The truth is I'm currently struggling. I'm always struggling with my ego and my mind. It's constant work. Everything is coming out, and I'm just sitting with it with love and acceptance and compassion and constantly reminding myself, go to the love. Go to the love. Go to the love, but it is struggle, and I honor the people who are struggling with this, but they're still walking the path.

I got to the light through extreme darkness. I was in a very dark period in my life. Even though I reached a point in my life where I was reaching some of my dreams, the dreams were not fulfilling me because they were fulfilling my ego, but not really my true purpose. And then in that darkness somehow there was this incredible light that came to me, and that was the moment when I realized, okay, this is what I need to do, and I felt home. I finally felt fully home, and this was about six years ago. Six years ago I was going through a lot of darkness, and this was after I was shortlisted for an Oscar. So I was very close to reaching my dream. And in that moment I realized that there's such a thing as ego. And I was also seeing a lot of the lies and the games in Hollywood. And it was hurting me because I love filmmaking so much. Everything that my ego was clinging on to was all of a sudden collapsing, and I was going through dark night of the soul, but I didn't realize what it was in that moment. But then there came a day when I accepted that I'm not okay. And I accepted that I don't need to be strong anymore.