Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

Life must be lived, not spoken. The spiritual journey of life, as I have written in my books, starts and continues through direct and concrete experiences of life, not intellectual or theorectical ones. My psychospiritual vision is based on the conviction that all things on earth are interdependent and are manifestations of God. The Spirit cannot be imprisoned. It is free and joyous.

I frequently encounter people who deceive themselves. When I listen to them I have the impression that they are unaware of the mechanism they put into practice. I’ve tried to reflect on this and my conclusion is that self deception is useful to unaware people in order to survive better and face reality. Like falling in love, which I consider a self deception that passes into love. Although, if one does not leave the falling in love stage, that itself can become an...

Over time I have become convinced that if we accept God as that which was before and that which will be after our individual existence on this earth, and that which inspires every change in our existence, then we can live the possibilities offered by those changes–above all if those changes happened through suffering–as reaching an even deeper relationship with our interiority. If we flee from the challenges, that God offers us, these challenges will chase us...

In my vision Christmas must touch our souls deeply. It’s not a coincidence that Christmas takes place during the Winter solstice, when the night is darkest and most blessed. When the position of the sun is the lowest of the year and the hope is great. Because it is the moment of conception and birth. In this perfect night the seed of God is born. From now on, this seed will grow mysteriously in us. Best wishes dear readers.

In the psychospiritual vision which I founded, illnesses, and situations of conflict and adversity can become spaces of spiritual growth, where one can participate with creativity, but where one must connect with God. When something inside of us is in disorder we need to aspire to the highest level, that is God, where things are in order. We do this to be able to return to being in harmony with ourselves and with the world. It is not good to close our wounds immediately. We...

The psychospirituality in which I believe does not create unity, but reestablishes it. It does not invent unity, it rediscovers it. In this sense it becomes synonymous with mystical or contemplative ability, able to go beyond divisions, oppositions, and dualisms which produce a loss of direction and orientation. Faith in God gives us the symbolic dimension, which remains the only dimension that can save us. Faith makes a gift of that “center” in which all that’s real...