Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

  As long as the inhabitants of this time continue to listen to the people in power that make them believe suffering and death are not proof of sense that regards each of them, they will never know their true humanity. Without suffering, without death there is no greatness, there is no life. One becomes superficial, arrogant, banal, mean, vulgar. exactly like the heroes of this time, created by the mass media, by advertising. These heroes believe they are real but...

  How many times have you thought you messed everything up? Thrown it all away, wasted your entire life… just because you had not reached some goal. Maybe you decided you needed to become socially or professionally important. Maybe you had created in your head the ideal relationship and then lost sight of yourself, your uniqueness and limits. Many of us never look at ourselves. Instead, we invest everything in others. We dishonor our uniqueness this way. And naturally this...

I’m convinced that reaching the serenity of an innocent child–as an adult–means becoming wise. We need to go through a sociocultural conditioning to then be able to undertake the work of discerning, and freeing ourselves from all the useless burdens, constructions, and needs created by the market. Returning to being as we were –fearless, optimistic, happy — after having lived the hazards of life, does not mean being infantile. To the contrary, it is proof...

  I don’t want to talk about the pre-established roles of children and parents. I’ve always believed in the person. Not so much in social roles that are mere formalities, consecrated by tradition¯like outfits to wear and exhibit. These roles become spaces of power, where personal neuroses are then subtly hidden or masked¯spaces that are almost never conquered, are almost never the result of a psycho-spiritual journey, are never suffered through, are never felt fully in the...

“Ben Fatto” Tomorrow morning on Thursday September 29 at 8:30 am on the RadioRaiUno “Ben Fatto” show I will answer some questions on psycho-spirituality

  My latest book was recently released in Catholic Italian bookstores. It’s called “Parents Forever” and it revisits a previous book of mine on parents and children. This past spring I released another book, “LIFE, Fragility of the Heart,” which is selling very well. “I’ve discovered only recently that my desire to live, my enthusiasm and strength come from having revisited my childhood; from having cleaned and healed it; and found again its innocence. In fact, when I...