Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

As I see it, only from an awareness of one’s own mortality can a journey of deep, personal awareness, both psychological and spiritual, begin, and any relationship has to start there, too, whether it’s professional or intimately personal. That awareness has to be the starting place. Only from this common awareness can one learn not to judge another but to try to discover whether or not he or she is on the same journey. Besides that, awareness of one’s own...

Any relationship with another is based on freedom – freedom from the need to judge, freedom to become aware of one’s own mortality, freedom to explore one’s own human nature, and, most of all, freedom to become aware of one’s particular mission in life and of one’s gifts, strengthened as they are by virtue, together with freedom to continually try to reduce as much as possible one’s vices. So, a logical question then arises concerning...

I have to say that, having arrived at the sunset of my existence, I can’t understand any relationship with another (whether in love or friendship) that doesn’t involve a willingness to recognize and respect the other. It’s important, in that regard, to ask ourselves what image we have of the other, since it’s from that image that our relationship stems. Nowadays there’s no one who completely rejects the other or wants to destroy him. He prefers...

When readers write to tell me they can’t forgive themselves for not having been present at the death of a loved one, I write back and tell them that a custodian angel is given to each of us at birth. This angel will accompany us throughout our whole existence, and at the hour of our death will help us move beyond the physical state and will place us before God. So even at death we won’t be alone.