Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

Many people don’t know how to smile because they are incapable of freeing themselves from illusions, ideas, and mental representations that only reflect the ego’s desires and prescind from the changeability of the material world. Illusions reveal an ego closed in itself and closed to relationship. Becoming free of illusions is an interior task. Therefore, knowing how to smile means not separating yourself from the totality, not forgetting that you are part of it and not...

I received many emails complimenting the poems. This encourages me to write more of them, that is, when I feel inspired. Dark wind black stars the red moon rises above the pond penetrating closed eyes without light.

Many mothers and many fathers don’t know how to smile because they don’t know how to analyze themselves. They don’t reduce their narcissism or desire for power. In order to defend this false vision of themselves, they project their interior needs onto those closest to them, usually children. We need to understand that we are not all-powerful and that life is marked by limits. We are not everything, but we do need everything.

At times deception hides behind a smile. Many people use others with a smile. For one’s own interests, to satisfy ghosts, to follow pleasure. At times, a smile hides violence. In love relationships, but most of all with children. There are bad people that soil and destroy the souls of their own kind. The badness lies in human beings; in their relationships. Not in things. For example, a mother that hides deception behind a smile betrays the child and the child will be...

We could say that a mother that doesn’t smile at her child scandalously commits a sin; sin meaning a deformed and distorted vision of self, lacking in respect for both psychological and spiritual reality. A person doesn’t smile because she is deaf, because she doesn’t know how to listen, because she has a hard heart, because she is insensitive. Because she doesn’t believe herself to be in a relationship with another, whereas she remains always and only closed in...