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.
INTERNET LOVE
In my opinion it’s better for a person who wants to begin a spiritual journey, to undertake it alone or with a spiritual master, but not in a relationship― even if, after a certain period, having become an expert in the spiritual journey, entering into a relationship becomes a priviledged space where, together with the other― who is also on a growth journey― one can reach ever elevated levels of awareness, which becomes the true motive to continue as a couple, and, to the contrary, in case of disappearance, the closing of the relationship. This is that which I call a love relationship. Theoretical? I don’t think so, especially today, in our globalized and networked world, it can become a new true way of love.
WE WANT A POOR CHURCH
We need a Church, not so much in its ritual dimension, but in its humanitarian one. A Church that is preoccupied with the loss of God in the current history of humanity, that fights against the evils of injustice and for social justice. Such a Church must rid itself of the desire to possess and dominate in order to enter into the logic of gratuity and sharing. It must become poor if it wants to speak truly to men and women of today. As I have always written, if the search is not real it loses vitality and dies. It’s not credible. The problem, and it’s the one that I am continously trying to give witness to, is not preaching spirituality without living it, but living spirituality through the tiring practice of daily life in a globalized world without rules, where ever more masses of human beings are stripped of their elementary right to work. The challenge is to find a new spirituality, that knows how to speak to the heart, without comprimise.
THE PERSON THAT DOES NOT LISTEN DIES INSIDE
The person that knows how to listen to the past, knows how to remember. To return to the past not to get stuck there, but to overcome it, to now commit the same mistakes, after having interpreted and given meaning to it. As I always say, keep the past by your side, never in front of you because it would paralyze you. A characteristic of unaware, superficial or violent people that they don’t think of the past, they don’t remember who they are, because they want to remain the same. The biggest mistake we can make is not wanting to know our negative parts. The source of evil is a deceitful image of ourselves. Evil is a deformed perception, of itself and of reality.
CLICK TO DELETE LOVE
As you know I am writing my new book on the topic of love that will be in the bookstores next year, published by the Paulines in Italy. Deepening the issue, I realize that everything is changing. For example, marriage understood as living together forever, seems to me to have disappeared and to be outdated, like something from another century. living together is no longer forever, and not with just one person, but it has become a very flexible way of living emotions, possibly without complications, where everyone knows, from the beginning, that each person can go when they want and that the door is always open to new acquaintances, new encounters. Don’t you think that this is a lot like Facebook?… where a click is enough to delete a friendship?
SECURITY OF THE EGO
The ego likes security, peace, and stability while reality is infinitely intense and expansive, in continuous change. Once we have decided to live and not let lives be led, then it is exciting to be able to change ourselves, to recognize our own negative attitudes, to deconstruct and reorganize them in a new way, a natural way, adhering to our own deep feelings. If we were to truly believe that we could never change, then life would lose meaning. We would be destined to remain what we are, for the rest of our existence. By the way, many say they want to change, but few really want it.
Change has to be deep. More interior than exterior.
TIED TO OUR INTERIOR WORLD
If we are not in contact with our interior world, it’s difficult to truly and fully live the reality of daily life. The ego tries to use only parts of our being, the mind only or the body only, but in this way we have a reduced amount of information and perceptions of reality that tend to makes us live in abstract, illusory and unreal ways. We need to learn to live well rooted in ourselves, in our own deep sensations, in our hearts, as I say. Here we will find our eternal, spiritual sides in order to understand deeply what is happening, moment by moment. With the risk of losing ourselves.
THE RIGHT DISTANCE
It’s hard for someone who wasn’t loved enough or listened to as a child to take the right distance from people and things. You either end up closing yourself in the silence and self isolation of an autistic solipsist, not able to communicate with others and envious of them, denigrating and denying them―or on the other hand― you tend to melt with others, confusing love with possession, taking strength from others and feeling like you are able to make choices and have an autonomous life. To be ourselves and others and to love truly and deeply we need the right distance, that allows us to see people and things for what they are.
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