Core Insight:
According to Osho, Italy's essence is a pagan, life-affirming spirit: lively, earthy, loving, and gloriously nonserious. Italians carry their land's youthfulness, celebrating the here-and-now rather than afterlife fictions. Though Christianity overlays them through historical guilt, their real soul remains the pagan art of living: song, dance, and tasting each moment fully, where nonseriousness is a religious quality and knowing how to live also teaches a beautiful way to die.