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The Infinite Meekness that Saves Us

Narrative Capitals/10 - The challenge to prevent the transformation of the ideal into ideology by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 14/01/2018 “And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners (the people bound inside the cave) are released and disabused of their e...
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Authenticity Cannot Be Simulated

Narrative Capitals/9 Childlike spirit is the summit of adult life by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 07/01/2018 “But one had to be talented to be able to age without becoming an adult ". Jacques Brel-Franco BattiatoThe Song of Old Lovers (La canzone dei vecchi amanti) Every organizati...
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Fraternity Has Hands and Feet

Narrative Capitals/8 - Founding and continuing without haste, just like equilibrists by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 31/12/2017 When a truly original genius makes its appearance in the world, people make haste to get rid of it. To achieve this goal they have two methods. The first is elim...
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The Great Wings of Life

Narrative Capitals/7 - Bad culture chases good existence away by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 24/12/2017 But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. (...) But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I s...
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The Naked Freedom of the Eyes

Narrative Capitals/6 - What matters is to recognise deceitful prophets and storytellers by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 17/12/2017 “Poverty is the first virtue to be discovered by all founders, and the first one to be forgotten by their successors."  Carlo Maria Martini, Per am...
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The Different Power of Desires

Narrative Capitals/5 - There is no more vital guarantee than “freedom-without-guarantees” by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 10/12/2017 «Human desire will forever remain only in its irreducible character (resistant to) any reduction and adaptation. » Jacques Lacan The ...
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The Road to Damascus Is Normal

Narrative Capitals/4 - Founding and Saving facts and acts aren’t always striking by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 03/12/2017 “Only infinite love can reduce itself and, in order to become finite, become incarnated in order to love the other, to love the other as a finite other.&r...
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On the wounds of the earth

Narrative Capitals/3 - Great collective ideals germinate in seismic areas by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 26/11/2017 «Ci sono le voci. Ci accompagnano. Ci mordono. Ci sussurrano brevissime consolazioni… Ci comandano ci sgridano quasi mai ci lodano gridano nelle notti insonni. ...
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Avoiding False Resurrections

Narrative Capitals/2 - Rising again should be learned and is only possible without a contract by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 19/11/2017 “The great writers project their shadow in two directions simultaneously. In one they offer their shadow to their predecessors, in the other to tho...
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Reviving the Tree of Ideals

Narrative Capitals/1 - The new beginning of a spiritual and work heritage by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire il 12/11/2017 “We have to work in those intermediate areas between several orders of disciplines, in which exceptional wealth is often accumulated, like at the border of two differe...