Lightweight. Not superficial.
Once, a man with a beautiful smile and a not indifferent spiritual path, Carlo Dorofatti, a scholar of subtle and spiritual resources of the human being, talking about the present (that moment which coincides with the here and now and on which we struggle to be most of the time), during one of the valid and nutritious encounters he held in Umbria, he made a distinction that struck me very much, and which I report to you now.
The attempt, he explained, should be to stay light and deep on and with things .
Not heavy and superficial, but light and deep.
In the days following the meeting I would have found myself thinking about this distinction several times. I tried not to think hard or to scream the idea immediately, relegating it like a pretty thing, wasting it in an aperitif chat.
Then, when this distinction of Dorofatti had been digested and - perhaps - assimilated, here I find myself right in front of olives, celery and carrots and a friend talking about it. A kind of aperitif spontaneously called by both.
The interlocutor, a fellow teacher of psychophysical disciplines, speaking of psychological well-being, has long been on the description of the figure of Alberto Sordi, reporting scenes from films I had not seen.
And I immediately thought of: "Quanno if you laugh you have to be serious".
It is a postcard with the big face of Sordi that I hung in the kitchen.
He summed up a little the idea of Dorofatti, I told myself.
READ ALSO STRAIGHT TO DEVELOP AN INTERIOR DISCIPLINE
We are going to put in ten little (or too much) series, full or very empty of spirituality on how to try to live lightly:
- Remove the forms of laziness that prevent you from realizing a vision. We are not talking about a huge entrepreneurial vision, of a business to be carried out with a plane ticket in hand, a sum of actions that will lead you to revolutionize everything. No. The vision you can conceive in your today. It can also be just the "trivial" (it is not at all) going to sleep early. One purpose a day. For a greater purpose that you identify gradually, along the way (you can sing Baglioni).
- Feed well. And yes, it seems easy, what does "good" mean? Read the labels, find out, shake the farmer's hand, ask him everything he knows about seasonality (but don't become pedants, the farmers don't send them to say), make yourself farmers. The meal is also light. If for once you decide to give up the carbonara, try a colorful salad, not sad, enriched with seeds, low calorie, which leaves you ready for what will come after the meal, whatever it is. Less animal or hydrogenated fats.
- Move the c ... orpo. We are not vulgar no, and in any case we would have said buttocks. A sedentary lifestyle is also detrimental to the spirit.
- Go to the herbalist, do not treat him as a psychologist or a priest for confession, but in short, open up to those who know the rhythms of nature and can advise you on the most suitable natural remedy.
- Small gitarella outside the door in any wonderful place that this country hosts. We are spoiled for choice. This "boot" contains products of the highest certified quality, the result of the local raw material and of ancient traditions handed down for generations.
- "If I do not go, he will be offended. If I arrive late, he will be upset." Beat it for once. Stay at home or do something that turns your creativity on. Feed yourself, smile in the mirror, put loud music at home, make a Skype call with someone who is far away and explains his day to you with a certain panache.
- Look for nature.
- Observe the animals.
- Be quiet more often, especially when talking would fill your or someone's emptiness.
- Look for new music, ask around, search the internet, turn on the radio.
