(ANSA) - PERUGIA, DECEMBER 30 - "I love you deeply. You are as graceful as the salt of the earth": thus begins a "Letter to the future sentinels of humanity" that Brunello Cucinelli has published on his Instagram page.
Look far, read, love beauty, cultivate hope: these are some of the advice given to young people, seen "with the eyes of a father and of a man who always thinks with his soul turned towards the future".
"If you don't know how to look far - he writes, among other things - you won't find many reasons for a real life. Love art, love beauty, because in them is the truth that unites the soul with the real. Flee wrath" .
"This - he observes - is the time to set off towards a new vision. When you are moved by the flaming petals of a poppy or by the smell of a ripe fruit around which bees buzz, when the wind, blowing at its whim, will seem like a Mercury announcing distant lands, and its passage will be the sweetest music, then you will be in the blessed state of hope and the glittering world that awaits you".
"Read the books. You don't always need to study everything; if the book is a real book, one in which those who have lived with a human spirit tell their truth in simple words, or those that contain the wisdom of ancient peoples, open it at random, every single morning of your beautiful youth and then throughout your beautiful life, and read no more than twelve lines of those that come before your eyes. And do not forget that alongside the intelligence of study there is always the intelligence of the soul".
"Never be too afraid of your mistakes - he writes again - because it is from falls that greatness starts again; do not be ashamed to cry, because, as the great pilot Ayrton Senna said, tears are the fuel of the soul. Remember that only one noble gesture redeems more than a mistake. Never feel better than others, because in all of us there is always room for great ideas. Be well-disposed towards others because if you stay too focused on yourself, the right path will remain uncertain. Happiness does not lie so much in to possess the thing loved, but in loving what is worthy of love".
(HANDLE).