The capacity for listening resides in our openness to new and different dimensions. This discovery of otherness is not easy. It is a lifetime process of emptying and of giving up our manipulation of reality for selfish ends.

Listening allows for memory.

Memory, like listening, forces us out of our egoism and from being closed. It makes us courageous, available and constructive. In every form of neurosis there exists omnipotence and a rejection of one’s limits. Only the memory of our mistakes allows for a bigger awareness and a bigger acceptance of ourselves and others.

Making mistakes is not serious.

Much more serious is not recognizing our mistakes and therefore not allowing ourselves to be purified and matured by them. (Excerpt from THE JOURNEY OF LIFE [IL VIAGGIO DELLA VITA]. Valerio Albisetti. Ed. Paoline).