Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

The spiritual dimension that I talk about in my books is invisible, deeply serene and silent, and yet very powerful. Miraculous. The power of strength or of money are nothing compared to spiritual power. It is a power connected to God, and it is reachable through prayer and meditation. We should not let one day pass without finding the time to go into our deepest self and meet God. To be spiritual we do not need to have visions, but to look deep inside ourselves.

At some point our shadow side has to surface in order for us to become whole. That’s the only way our path through the shadows can lead to spiritual awareness. Those of us who have been en route for awhile have had to confront some dragons and monsters. For that reason, I’ve always advised we not cheat ourselves. Loyalty toward oneself is the only way to continue on the journey. If we are disloyal to ourselves, we will be condemned to live what we’d rather...

The person who walks the way of spiritual awareness is guided by his own interior images and understands that he has to accept blame without letting it paralyze him. The one thing he must avoid, at all costs, is lukewarm living. The lukewarm person thinks that remaining outside life, repressing, saying NO, running away from life’s conflicts is always best. Wrong! Only by entering into life’s fray, by completing life’s journey, by confronting everything he...

Since 1986 I have written books on psycho-spirituality (more than 30 published in Italy by Ed.Paoline)…but even though sales have been good (according to the publisher), the books haven’t enjoyed a wide readership. And I’ve come to understand over the years that that’s probably as it should be. The spirituality that I focus on is, in part, mysterious. Its mystery is not meant to scare away the general public, but the mystery itself is such that not...

I never know how to answer the one who asks me how to live life, since each person has to find his or her own way. For me, as you know, the main thing is to allow yourself to be loved by God, then peace of heart, prayer, silence, time alone, contact with nature, and finally, healthy food and long walks. All this in order to move steadily toward an ever deeper awareness and understanding of oneself and the world so that we can complete the tasks God has assigned each of us...

The man of today, no longer used to living straight through the principal phases of his life (birth, adolescence, young-, early- and late-adulthood, old age, and death), and even confusing them, prolonging them, and denying them, loses his inner equilibrium and lives a fragmented, fearful, and confused existence and in a permanent state of emotional stress. If he doesn’t move, step by step, through the main phases of his life, if he skips or denies them, it’s...