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La via negativa

La via negativa

Editing the last photographic investigation of my beloved subject with the code name "Seven" it came to my mind a comment of the Irish poet David Whyte about "La via negativa": which a notion/practise in the catholic contemplative tradition that, at it's heart, consists in the ability and the discipline to say “no” in everything in your life that is not an enormous "yes". What Keats calls "negative capability", in David Whyte's words, "The ability to open an absence inside you, into which the world rushes".

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