Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

  Men and women today tend to regress from being persons to being insignificant individuals. They stand afraid before a hostile, far away, and alienated world. They gladly rid themselves of awareness, believing they will find a sense of security in losing their uniqueness and unrepeatability. Forgetting to exist, becoming nothing, so as not to suffer, choose, decide or take a position. The lack of psycho-spiritual awareness, of not wanting to know one has to die, leads a...

  The collapse of values and social disintegration, caused by poverty and the continuously changing economic and socio-culture landscapes, as well as the loss of political authority… all of these are destroying the rules and models for social justice. It is happening to the advantage of the few, always richer and to the harm of the many, always poorer, and is leading to a climate of political disengagement and cultural emptiness. (taken from LA VITA fragilita del cuore....

  Nowadays the inhabitants of this country know and feel that their value depends on the ability to sell their outer image. For this reason they feel they have lost their dignity as human beings. If self esteem is based on the approval of others, then the dignity and freedom of following one’s vocation and psycho-spiritual growth journey is gone. Everything becomes superficial, open to influence, questionable, and stupid.

Today a large part of humanity, at least in the west, is made up of people who are empty inside, lacking a deep meaning of existence, with a constant sense of uselessness and alienation, without values. Above all, without hope. And that makes a big difference. Because everything changes, if whatever you do, you do it with authenticity, with heart, with soul or if you do it with a soul alienated from yourself and others, without heart or with a hard heart. Hardened. It’s HOW...

In all my books I have always sought to write with an essential and profound style. Maybe more easily diminished and misunderstood by various detractors, the ruling powers…because the time in which we live no longer produces heroes. By heroes I mean the people that know how to laugh with the heart, people that humbly and silently seek to carry their own personal histories, taking on the responsibility of everything that they discover in them. (taken from RIDERE CON IL CUORE...