Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

In my books, published in Italy by Ed.Paoline, I often talk about sickness and crises in our lives as opportunities to change course in our way toward awareness, which, to my way of thinking, is the purpose of our earthly existence. Certainly, to go deep, it’s necessary to pull back from superficialities. Profound change in our interior being constitutes the real essence of our lives.

Knowing that 100 people die every minute validates even more my decision to stay on the road to spiritual awareness and spread my conviction that human existence is a journey toward that awareness – a way to reduce to the minimum our neuroses. Life is short and uncertain, and a true spirituality leads one away from the futile search for certainties in this world, since, possessing such certainties brings with it fears. Only the one who has nothing to lose in this...

We shouldn’t pray only for our own daily needs, but also, and even more, for the dead. The dead can’t pray for themselves, and they need our prayers to bring their souls closer to God.