Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

Only the person who overcomes fear can be free. As a child, when I was helping my grandfather with his farm work, in between chores, I lay on my back in the grass and watched the movement of the clouds overhead. I always tried to discover the nature and essence of things and of people – of the world. Then in all my work I’ve always tried to look into the world (seen as a complex but unified place), in which all the parts move in relationship to all the others,...

From the moment you decide to move forward on the road to psychospiritual awareness, you will experience the persecution of those who are not at all interested in gaining that awareness, who base their lives on superficial things, and who don’t want you to go any deeper yourself. The lives and occupations of these persons presume the lack of psychospiritual awareness in others. They may have some small success, obeying, as they do, their own small-g, god and not the...

Underneath every conflict there is the denial of some spiritual reality. We can never be full human beings if we don’t have a deep relationship with God, Who lives in our hearts. The world in which we live impedes the growth of spiritual awareness because the world is unsettled and anxiety-producing. The laws that govern our society were made to defend the interests of the strong, not those of the weak. But the spirit that infuses and animates us is holy and enduring....

We need to begin changing the way we live our days if we want to live full, authentic, spiritual lives. For instance, after the midday meal, a break allows us to live the next part of the day and the evening with renewed energy – just as taking time to reflect during middle-age allows us to live serenely and well the following years of our lives. If, in the evening, when we return home, we sit in front of the TV in order to anesthetize ourselves in its illusory and...

We’re used to dividing reality into polar opposites: white and black, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, health and sickness, life and death. The wisdom of thousands of years, though, has shown us that this way of looking at things is incorrect, reductionist, and limiting because the two, opposite poles are closely correlated and, in fact, inseparable – so much so that if one pole is eliminated, the other also disappears. And the opposite is also true: If one is...