Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

We need to rethink the valuation of a people through its GDP, and take into account its quality of life, education, health, civility and, after all, its soul. The problem is that what makes us happy or that which expresses the soul is not a measurable entity. It doesn’t have a price, and you can’t sell it or buy it (thank goodness I say) on the market. The capacity to love and serve, the sense of limits, respect and spirituality are not on sale. They are journeys of meaning...

Today we have to realize that an increase in riches, income and possessions does not correspond to an increase in our psycho-physical well being, psychological feeling or in our happiness. Just the opposite, it creates more stress, anxiety, depression, fear, aggression, violence and criminality. Maybe the moment has come to put up for discussion the rules that make our society. Above all the rules on how our political class is formed and how power and money are...

Intelligence and culture are not enough to combat inequality and injustice. You need healthy compassion, to be able to identify yourself with others. This is easily learned through arts and letters and spirituality. And this helps us to dialogue without prejudice with people of different faiths and races, without fear and mistrust. Today democracy is in danger because the economic market is destroying it, and so education and knowledge are no longer important. You just need...

Entire generations are being constructed like armies of obedient and empty beings, moved only by the economic or consumerist needs in which they place their personal identities; beings capable only of utilitarian relationships – while what we need are interpersonal relations that are rich in creativity, spiritual values and full of humanity. In a society in which people must be in relationship – regardless of enormous geographic and linguistic differences – with...

Democracy is destined to enter into crisis if a humanistic spirit, the search for critical thought, creativity, imagination and above all empathy and understanding for different human experiences are not developed in citizens. In a word, psycho-spiritual awareness, living people as human beings and not as objects. Above all in this world, where we must deal with others despite geographic distance and with people that we have never seen.  Humanistic thought and...