Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

Heartfelt affection and love as I intend it, are revolutionary. They go against a society where nothing is done gratuitously, where people stay together to satisfy personal neuroses, where indifference is exalted as cleverness and knowing how to lie. Love as I intend it and heartfelt affection, want nothing in exchange. People in relationships should not forget this. Often we give affection only if we are sure the other person deserves it or will give it back to us, or in...

  Everyday a new psychological test comes out to discover your affinity as a couple or to improve your personality. Or so-called psychologists or psychotherapists pontificate on television about relationships and on how to love. But no one talks about the heart. Deep down, as always, the truth is much closer than we think: true love wants our hearts. Not only. In all of my books, I have advised you to keep your hearts clean, through a daily examination of conscience (or...

  It could not be otherwise. In all of my writings I have tried to teach people to not fear suffering, but rather to interpret it, to give it meaning. In the journey of life that I intend, full of meaning and sense, we need to know hot to enter into suffering and remain there for a time long enough to be able to discover our true and deep personal identities. Being in a hurry to stop suffering, in a superficial and consumerist vision of live, denying it, removing it,...

  Prayer today is so undervalued by the dominating consumerism that maybe we need to start again biblical prayer followed immediately by fasting and charity, that is, love. Prayer without love would be pure formality, just as fasting without charity would be pure masochism. Intense charity as practice of concrete and daily love.

  These days, as in all of the past twenty five years, I am about to write a book that will be released in Italian bookstores next year. As always I spent the summer in the silence of the woods that surround my Tuscan hermitage, in intimate contact with the nature of the place, for now uncontaminated (TERNA power line notwithstanding). The next book will be about love, after “HAPPY despite everything” and “LIFE, fragility of the heart.” Ed. Paoline....

  In LEARNING TO LIVE, my interview book published by the Paulines a few years ago, I affirm that for me the love relationship has meaning if it brings us to a reciprocal type of psychospiritual growth. This is a courageous affirmation in times like these where so-called colleagues in Italy confuse sex with love. Indeed, I do not accept the ease in which people talk about sex, maybe because everyone talks about it. The couple relationship is an inflated space, above all in...