Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

To be aware on a psychospiritual level means having understood that we must not deny ourselves but transform the level of our ego, with its contradictions and pain, with good and bad, with its masculine and feminine traits, to be able to evolve to higher levels of awareness. Taking our crosses on means taking off the mask and knowing how to interpret in a different way our defeats. Even losing health, if accepted as a personal cross, helps to raise us up and recognize that...

It’s good to know and recognize that only the experience of our hearts, with their joys and pains, where explanations become useless, bring us to know our very personal vocations and journeys on this earth. But we must continuously purify ourselves from the illusions of this world that call us and from the neuroses that gnaw at the human beings we meet. It’s continuous and tiring work, but it’s the only way possible to feel truly alive. Clarity and interior...

The psychospiritual awareness that I speak of in my books brings the elimination of the identification with our needs and emotions, with the hurts and sufferings that we have experienced. We continue to feel pain for the hurt we have experienced but the intimate and deep spiritual nucleus is not scratched. It remains free and vital. In this vision problems and difficulties are not eliminated but their strength and importance are taken away. We become free, no more dependent...

At a certain point in life we must encounter inside of ourselves, in the depth of ourselves, in the heart of our souls, the place of our true self, which is connected to God, unchangeable and powerful, where we can retreat to in silence during the day. This discovery helps us not live in a reduced way, only on the ego level, spurred by its narcissitic and omnipotent demands or seeking to survive, crushed by the hardness of life, by injustice, by surprises, by suffering, but...

When an aware person makes a mistake he or she knows it’s time to recognize his or her limits. This attitude helps the person err less, because the person grows in humanity, not in perfection. Mistakes serve to understand more deeply our own uniqueness.

There is no single definition of solitude that is fine for everyone. For one person it may be the absence of friendship, for others the absence of love, for others still the sensation of not being able to communicate, of living without a goal, or of not having someone that loves you. Solitude therefore is a personal, subjective experience that each of us can and should define in order to give it meaning. The majority of people confuse solitude with isolation. Often solitude...