Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

  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...

  For me passing from a generic openness to others to an innate kindness of the soul has been a slow process of maturation. I’ve passed to a true awareness of love toward all the living beings that surround me. If I think of my existence here on earth as a journey, I realize that in the things I encounter, in the people, the situations, in nature… I find direction, signs to better orient my growth journey. If I think that I came to this earth only to better myself, to...

  For the view of the powerful, insensitive to the appeal of the ineffable and of mystery, every type of being is reduced to pure matter, to be used and exploited. This leads to a type of relationship with the world that is selfish and utiliarian, in which the real is seen not in itself or in relationship with who created it, but in relationship with ourselves and the needs it can satisfy. It’s a disrespectful relationship, a greedy and manipulative one, like the one a...

  The justice I intend, by now you all know it, is living on earth utilizing its goods for the advantage of all and not just for the powerful. In cultivating justice men and women fulfill there wellbeing. Violating it, they go toward self destruction and senselessness. That means that justice is not just a human value, but a divine law. Those who promotes it, atheist or non, fulfill divine will. While those who betray it, believer or non, put themselves against God’s...

  In the great spiritual tradition the earth is seen as a companion and friend that humans are called to collaborate with. So neither domination, nor exploitation, but cooperation and respect. This type of relationship between people and nature should exist also between male and female; neither superiority nor inferiority, but reciprocity and creativity. In other words, this means that nature will provide for men and women if men and women take care of nature, that the...