I want to begin with a phrase often attributed to Toulouse-Lautrec: “In every art or mission, the greatest refinement lies in synthesis and simplicity.” We must return to tradition—but then we must know how to move beyond it without betraying it, not out of negligence but out of responsibility. This is how we become good missionaries without prejudice: creative in mission, respecting only the law of balance that nature imposes.

«Nothing happens by chance: we are exactly where God wants us to be.»

TIME (if you have time, read)

Time is an emotion and a two-dimensional magnitude: you can live it in “length” or in “breadth.” If you live it in length—monotonous and always the same—then after 60 years you will be 60.

But if you live it in breadth—with highs and lows, falling in love and perhaps even making a few foolish choices—then after 60 years you might feel like you’re only 30.

The problem is that people study how to lengthen life, when they should study how to widen it. There is an external time and an internal time. External time is the time of clocks and calendars, and it is the same for everyone. Internal time is personal, like eye color—it differs from person to person.

That is why there are people who are 60, 70, or 80 and feel like they’re 20. The truth is: it’s not just an impression—inside, they truly are 20.

Time is like a line. If you live without emotion, the line is straight, and your age corresponds exactly to the years you’ve spent on this Earth. But if you live with emotion, the line is not straight; it rises and falls continuously.

In that way, you may have been on Earth for sixty years, yet your inner age may remain far behind, because the line of your time has bent back on itself, refusing to follow that rigid straight line of time.

Besides, age—like time—is also an invention. What matters most is living to the fullest of our possibilities the time we have been given.

— Rino Senatore

Time: widening life, not just extending it