Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

  Only when a person creates and expresses his interior awareness, does he no longer feel isolated, empty and powerless. If, instead, he is only a miniscule gear of the system, where the powerful are ever distant and think only of their personal interests, he will find meaning in aggression which finishes in destruction or apathy, in self destructive depression. Aggression in order to feel existence. It’s a form of expression I have encountered many times as an...

  The innocent child, confident of himself, is a powerful, wonderful, fantastic being. Ever since I discovered him, I try not to neglect the “little Valerio” in me. It is he who gives me the strength to keep living. He’s always enthusiastic, curious and rich in creativity and inventiveness. He possesses an inexhaustible vitality, an infinite energy. He is full of joy and always helps me to turn upside down any negative situation, transforming it into positive. He makes me...

  As long as the inhabitants of this time continue to listen to the people in power that make them believe suffering and death are not proof of sense that regards each of them, they will never know their true humanity. Without suffering, without death there is no greatness, there is no life. One becomes superficial, arrogant, banal, mean, vulgar. exactly like the heroes of this time, created by the mass media, by advertising. These heroes believe they are real but...

  How many times have you thought you messed everything up? Thrown it all away, wasted your entire life… just because you had not reached some goal. Maybe you decided you needed to become socially or professionally important. Maybe you had created in your head the ideal relationship and then lost sight of yourself, your uniqueness and limits. Many of us never look at ourselves. Instead, we invest everything in others. We dishonor our uniqueness this way. And naturally this...

I’m convinced that reaching the serenity of an innocent child–as an adult–means becoming wise. We need to go through a sociocultural conditioning to then be able to undertake the work of discerning, and freeing ourselves from all the useless burdens, constructions, and needs created by the market. Returning to being as we were –fearless, optimistic, happy — after having lived the hazards of life, does not mean being infantile. To the contrary, it is proof...