Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

The real problem is not the loss of things and persons, but rather the slipping away of one’s own life and especially of deep reflection on the profound meaning of one’s own existence in God’s eyes. In other words, only when we have a deep, personal understanding of our lives can we venture into either the dark woods or the sunny meadows of life, meet dangers and enemies and take risks because the darkly negative or brightly positive ways of looking at...

Personal identity today is usually understood as hinging on the possession of things and persons. It’s almost always based on externals rather than on the inner being, so that’s why we would expect that as soon as we lose things and persons, both of which are external to ourselves, we have identity crises – serious ones that can lead to profound spiritual (I call it psychospiritual) distress, not to mention eventual physical distress. Only when we look...