Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

  You should not think that to love you need to meet someone… but rather to love you need to know how to enter deeply into the reality of the moment are in. If you believe you love because you met a person, it is probably attraction or compassion… but if you know how to live reality you come to know freedom and love… not so much for a person or thing, but love in itself… it will be this love that radiates toward the external.

  Yesterday I was interviewed for a Jesuit magazine in Brazil… they asked me how I live when I am living as a hermit… I didn’t know what to say… now I would say that I spend many hours reflecting on the corruption inherent in every type of attachment… I think about anxiety, suffering and the slavery that comes from them… and I contemplate instead the profound joy of interior freedom that comes from being detached… to break the tie of attachment one needs to know how to...