Not with the feet, nor with the head

It is not that I am not Catholic and I am Muslim or Buddhist. I am nothing, I want to clarify. I am a person who seeks and who believes in the religion of life, and that’s all. I am interested in the sacred, the mystical aspect of living, without names or recipes. What is above us is so total and so universal that it cannot have a name: it is simply everything».

Interviewer: “Can Battiato give him an image?”

No. It would be like wanting to define water with a simple chemical formula. The sea is deep and mysterious, you can analyze it chemically, but who can describe the charm that just looking at it? And so the divine: these are subtle feelings that cannot be reduced to rational explanations. Saint Augustine said: you cannot walk to God. Maybe on foot you can get there, but with your head definitely not. The only way is the heart».

Franco Battiato, 1998
Excerpt of Visione Alchemica
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