Is it possible to seek God and not find him? Can the Absolute hide from those who passionately invoke it? Carlo Carretto responds to this challenge with the strength of a life spent pursuing the Invisible. From the crowded squares of ecclesial commitment to the dazzling silence of the Sahara, to the peace of Spello, Brother Carlo retraces his "incarnate" journey toward the Father. In these vibrant pages, he unmasks the struggles of modern man. For Carretto, God is not a concept to be understood, but a Person to be loved; he is the Water and the Air in which we are immersed, a real presence that reveals itself precisely when all is silent. "Tired of reasoning, I tried to love": an invitation to become small and to abandon the resistance of reason to rediscover, in the breath of contemplation, the joy of finally allowing oneself to be found. "I don't try to understand, I try to believe. I didn't reach God by understanding, I reached him through faith."
«Let's not say that today it is more difficult;
it's different. Let's learn rather
by the saints who have gone before us
and they faced the difficulties
characteristic of their era".