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A sense of Calm trust in fate. A quiet Submission to the inevitable. A stoic composure in sight of danger and calamity. A friendliness with death. Since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated by Eastern philosophies—Buddhism, Zen, and especially the samurai. Yes, the samurai. Hagakure. Bushido. A
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Leonardo da Vinci was a genius. We know this well. Subscribe One of the most brilliant minds in history, if you will. I've always found it curious how, like many other Italian genius minds, he was forced to move outside our country's borders to express himself
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I'm not an expert on religion or the Bible. In fact, it's only recently that I've approached it, in a completely secular way. Like a curious storyteller interested in the tales, the vicissitudes, and the character who is perhaps the most famous, spoken of,
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I don't believe in competition. Yes, exactly. Subscribe You read it right. Even though I grew up in a sports environment, which notoriously pushes you towards competition, as I approach forty, I've realized that living constantly in a competitive mindset causes more harm than good. Yes,
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"In Italy, there are elderly people everywhere. You see them everywhere, every day. Subscribe On the sidewalks, sitting on benches, in line at the supermarket, at the bar. They are a pillar, and not even a very invisible one, of Italian reality. And well, even though they are our
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“Silence is the language of God. All else is a poor translation” - Rumi - As I take my evening walk, the wet grass of the park beneath my house, I observe the skyscraper behind me and the various apartments lit up in different colors (the apartment bathed in red light intrigues
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(Reading time 7min) Now that I'm nearing my first forty years of life, I have developed a tendency to look back (yes, I know, typical attitude of the "oldies") and in some ways try to "tie up" what has happened, what I have learned
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(Reading time 12min) When I lived in Australia, one of my best friends was (and still is) Geraldo, a Brazilian guy. We often went to the beach to walk, eat Açai at sunset or in the water to do body surfing (Geraldo is a surfer). Subscribe What is Body Surfing?
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(Reading time 8min) Subscribe Halloween Night - 2021 Somerville, Massachusetts. It's about ten thirty in the evening and I'm going to bed. A scroll on social media, a few videos on Youtube, and I'm in the arms of Orpheus. - I am running through a lush
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(Reading time 7 min) In a completely accidental and fortuitous way, partly due to a ended relationship that made me reflect on the role of the man in the couple, partly due to genuine curiosity, I came across this book that talks about archetypes, specifically mature masculine archetypes, and I
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Ciao. Welcome to my Substack. Why am I doing this? Because I want to share something with you. My name is Matteo (aka Matt) I am Italian and I live in Miami, Florida ☀️🌴. Who am I? Many things. But above all, I am a STORYTELLER (thats why I created this
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Night Pills Podcast - Sundance0:00/2001× An encounter that happened three years ago, in a midweek night in a restaurant in Soho, Manhattan. That led to me writing a story, this story, that became the first episode I created of this podcast. That episode is SUNDANCE, the last of this