WE ARE ALL BORN TO UNDERTAKE A MISSION
I have already written that suffering is the most fertile place from which springs the search for the deep reason for which we have come to this planet. Each of us, by definition, in the moment in which we are born, has a goal. In my vision of life, each of us is born and comes to earth because we have a mission to undertake, a vocation to follow, otherwise we would not be born.
The personal journey begins when we learn to go beyond survival, when we have recognized black and white, good and bad, and when we have understood that between them runs a clear, visible line but that, exactly for this, requires us to stay ever alert, to know how to discern, and know how to prioritize.
THE OTHER
I do not say that the spiritual experience coincides with the psychological one, I say that the psychological experience – like an ego change—brings us to the spiritual experience. The spiritual experience is wider than a psychological one, or better, it’s different, although similar, because it contains and brings us to transcendence, the way to eternity. Its path is not direct, nor is it rigidly divided. When I completed the psychological path, the spiritual one began. But it’s the modality, that I called psycho-spiritual, that counts. In my vision, the spiritual and the psychological must be entwined. So much so that the basis of this psycho-spirituality is the continuous transformation of the ego. For me, if there is no ego transformation, there is no authentic spiritual journey. That for me, as I’ve already said, is the leit-motif of our existence. But all of this is not enough. Left alone like that, yet again, it would be a delusion of omnipotence of the ego. We need the Other, not reducible to being human, that we cannot manipulate, to whom inspire ourselves¯God. Religions for me complete this personal transformation change journey, they indicate why we must change, and the limit, there where we must transform.
PURIFYING YOURSELF THROUGH MISTAKES
If we don’t learn how to learn from our mistakes, we are condemned to repeat them forever. We must learn to recognize our mistakes because, doing so, they purify, liberate, and mature us. They make us look inside ourselves, the put us in front of ourselves to unmask our sick, neurotic and evil parts. The false awareness of ourselves must die, to be able to open truly to life, to the other, to others, because this process of unmasking is not possible, is not possible with just our own personal strength but implies help from the other, of a “you” that questions us.
BEST WISHES IN BEAUTY AND TRUTH
My challenge, in this last part of my earthly existence, is to sow useful directions for following the personal journey of spiritual awareness in a world that is complex, globalized and dominated by materialism, selfishness, and especially, by an absence of ethics. My wish for this Christmas is that we seek in everything that we do the intimite beauty and goodness of it―the inherent harmony. I am convinced, as you all know, that deep down the world in which we live is good, and that it was not created to be violated, nor society to be unjust. I belong to a generation ready to pay the price for the ideas we believe in, and I continue to respect only those who say what they think and do what they say. Witnesses to the truth, cost what it may. Best wishes.
DEEP CENTER OF EXISTENCE
Only when we are centered on the deep sense of existence, or better, only when this deep and personal sense determines our own identity, can we go beyond, even to dark woods or sunlit meadows. We can face dangers, risks or enemies. Because the meaning of life is not given to us by the darkness or light of events, friends or enemies, but rather by how all of these are lived. Certainly, the surprises of life, the losses, the end of an important love relationship, betrayals, the death of loved ones, sickness, failure and aversity put our identities to the hard test. Often they put us in crisis, at times they breaks us, but always, if we have searched for the deep meaning of our existence, we go back to living.
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