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Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

THE PERSPICACITY AND PERSEVERANCE OF THE SPIRITUAL PERSON

Perspicacity means seeing what’s behind words and appearances, taking the long view of things, and seeing them clearly and lucidly. The opposite of perspicacity is willful blindness. Jesus gave us magnificent examples of perspicacity in the Scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 23:27 and Matthew 6:16), and in the Rich Man (Matthew 21:22), and He also gave us an overflowing fountain of suggestions on how to practice it. The spiritual man knows how to pose questions and make...

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THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN

The starting point on the spiritual journey is ineluctably one’s realization that he has been created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), and that God has given human beings free will, i.e., the possibility of choosing between good and evil, life and death, divine blessing or curse (Deuteronomy 30: 15, 19, 20), and urges him to choose life, listens to him, having already told him not to trust in his own intelligence, but in all things to recognize the hand of God and to...

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ALBISETTIAN PSYCHOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS.PROJECTION

ALBISETTIAN PSYCHOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS PROJECTION Projection consists in denying that certain thoughts, feelings, and negative urges are one’s own and attributing them to others in order to bolster one’s own self-esteem. “I’m not the bad one, he is.” And the price to pay for this kind of behavior is in not knowing one’s own or even the other’s authentic self, leading to the inability to effect any real change. For that reason, the projection mechanism can be effectively...

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