In the hall of the Municipal Library of San Casciano Saturday admired photographs of his friend Francesco Lucania, taken during a trip to Cambodia, a journey in search of ancient Khmer art, the exhibition's title is: "Along the paths of Angkor." I was fascinated by the beauty of the stone forest, kidnapped by the magnificent architecture of the temples for centuries buried in the jungle and enchanted in front of the faces of the statues that look at you with their enigmatic smile. Peace shines through in every shot communicating the intense spirituality that animates a unique place where nature does not seem to have abandoned the world of stone, but with roots that look like tentacles to add new forms, like columns and decorations that blend those created by man.
With imagination, I tried to immerse myself in the quiet of those places, enjoying the inner calm that pervades the soul of the visitor who is able to approach so do not rush to that mysterious world, its secret more subtle beauty in silence.
Francis wrote in the presentation of photos "in Angkor you meet a smile you'll never forget, that the peace of mind, inner peace, of life that seems to have fulfilled all imagination and calm the anxiety of desires", who has been enveloped by that smile, "take it with them as a secret to keep, a way forward."
I do not know if life will offer me the opportunity to go to Cambodia to admire the beauty of this archaeological site is unique in the world, but the way to go as I have found in my travels in other Asian countries in the uses and customs of peoples who have a concept of life very different from ours. In India and Nepal, I noticed that daily life is not obsessed with the passage of time, people move and work without being dominated by stress and performance anxiety, factors that undoubtedly corrupt well-being of Western man. We live as bewildered, always on the run from a thousand things to do and commitments to be completed, it must be asked: but when we find a bit 'of time for us? The sense of the application is to seek to grasp and even in the hectic daily moments of silence, in which Be aware of your breath, come to talk to our very essence, managed to escape from all worldly thoughts and concerns in order to find peace of heart. Click
silence in our troubles, unplug it is increasingly difficult, we have to do this and that and see the future, giving up one space to devote to internal dialogue, which feeds our personal growth. Only the best from our bodies running from morning to evening, we consider it as a machine in which the gear is always engaged and the engine runs faster we consume our energy, without realizing that it is necessary from time to time to stay "neutral", relax a moment, take breath and add some 'fuel, a fuel made of rare silence and contemplation.
Pascal wrote that "one of the ruins of humanity is precisely that of not being able to stay quiet for a time into a room." I fully thought that this is an exhortation to rediscover the value of silence and this is the way I try to follow: those who can only stand in silence prepares his heart to the inner dialogue, which gives him strength, only in silence can expand the horizons of our minds and pursue the path of wisdom is silence.
