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Within Us Without Us
The World Within us and the Word Without us are one,
as difficult to be understood and accepted as it may be.
No one of us is war-free.
Admitting this truth is a great success.
From John and Paul to John Paul II:
the great yes.
We call them commonplaces, but more than commonplaces they are cemeteries of the truth, trivialities which distract from Right and Good and draw our attention to the person who maintains them. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, reads an English proverb. Let's make a small step forward. Let's consider John Lennon: which banality immediately catches the eye?
One might say: John Lennon made too much money: how could he sincerely sing "Imagine no possessions"? Too easy for him, who had so much, too much... Was he an historical forgery then, a contradiction in terms? Was he not sincere?
How could John be able to reach the hearts of so many young people, before and after his death? What made him so precious as to attract to himself millions of other human beings, kindling a vibrating flame of love, a feeling of comfort, an intuition of brotherhood, a spark of awareness of the future in their hearts, arousing in them a yes?
Contradictions... oppositions: John Paul and John Lennon. And what has a rockstar, a layman, to do with a Pope? Someone – I’m sure- is going to cry profanation and blasphemy, but this is not the case. To climb to the highest levels of conscience, to plunge in the twists and turns of our hearts , in the abysses of our minds requires a lot of Energy. A great quantity and of good quality. You can call it Vocation (someone/something is calling you. You feel to have a mission, something you have to do: you move)
The artist feels himself called from the unknown; perceives a sort of restlessness that force him/her to handle the matter, forge it, fold it, extracts a form out of it, a sound, a word... and the religious man feels himself “called”, experiences the same restlessness, at times fears, steps backwards and is maybe about to repent, but then he/she moves on - stair by stair- forging his/her will.
Their creation helps eliminating more than adding. To that rock of stone of their personality they remove the superfluous of overchanging opinions, desires and self-pities, the entire outfit of our times.
They both called, both creators. There is no contradiction between how much we are, think and have and how much we dream of being and possessing, as different as it may seem. There is continuity, consequentiality, an approach, in between the two poles, which may be reached in just one second or in a lifetime.
The idler only is outraged who doesn't get closer to the flame, because it fears to burn himself. The one, who doesn't accumulate his firewood, doesn't put together his yeses, but prefers to follow the paths of rejection, fear, death... just a little bit.
John and Paul. The Beatles. There was a scandal when Lennon said, during an interview, that the Beatles were more famous than Christ at that time; it aroused indignation; yet it was only an observation.
In the days of the death of John Paul II has happened something similar. Those were the prodromes of those great concerts which would have gathered million of young people around an artist, an hero, a Man.
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