Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

In autumn, darkness predominates over light, and the nights are longer than the days. Nevertheless, it’s an important and fascinating time of year: a time to take away, rather than a time to add to – a time to cut off dry branches and only hold on to what’s essential. While the light outside diminishes, the interior light grows brighter, in order to bring about, in the silent dark, a new conception. I have always paid more attention to conception rather...

In my books, published in Italy by Ed.Paoline, I often talk about sickness and crises in our lives as opportunities to change course in our way toward awareness, which, to my way of thinking, is the purpose of our earthly existence. Certainly, to go deep, it’s necessary to pull back from superficialities. Profound change in our interior being constitutes the real essence of our lives.

Knowing that 100 people die every minute validates even more my decision to stay on the road to spiritual awareness and spread my conviction that human existence is a journey toward that awareness – a way to reduce to the minimum our neuroses. Life is short and uncertain, and a true spirituality leads one away from the futile search for certainties in this world, since, possessing such certainties brings with it fears. Only the one who has nothing to lose in this...

We shouldn’t pray only for our own daily needs, but also, and even more, for the dead. The dead can’t pray for themselves, and they need our prayers to bring their souls closer to God.

Many people, when they reach middle age, try to hide the signs of creeping old age…but they don’t know that the more they try to hide the external signs of old age, the more they age interiorly. The prouder one is of one’s own wrinkles, the younger he becomes spiritually. At some point in life it is necessary to abandon the periphery and concentrate one’s efforts on returning to the center – letting go of possessions and focusing on the...

Spiritual wisdom, as I understand it, is like salt. Just as salt preserves quality and prevents deterioration and rot, so in small quantities, salt adds taste and prevents sickness. In water it dissolves easily and, once dissolved, is diffused and dissipates but leaves the water salty. In a similar way, spiritual wisdom spreads everywhere and is inexhaustible. It can be found everywhere in the smallest things. It’s clearly present but loves to stay hidden