Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

  This morning at dawn, while I descended stairs of the hermitage I noticed a strange spot… and there…

The hermitage of author Valerio Albisetti I’ve decided it’s time to show all of you who affectionately follow this blog the hermitage where I live and work.

  This morning as I was waiting the dawn and mediating on some verses from Jeremiah, I thought about the people that go frenetically from one action to another, so they don’t have to stop. And I wondered how they can listen to the deep questions that life, or better that their earthly experience continuously poses to them. Deep questions that require deep answers. The search that I suggest in my books is a real journey that seeks to keep the soul alive and, tending to make...

In my vision, love should never be a need. It should be a choice. I also believe that entering into a dimension of love, a person should have reduced his or her own needs. On the contrary, many of my peers live the couple relationship as a space in which to satisfy unresolved needs. Hidden by a syrupy sentimentality. The psycho-spiritual awareness that I bear witness of is neither sweet nor bitter, good nor bad. It’s awareness! If awareness were only sweetness, then words...

To know who you are, to say yes to yourself, gives meaning to your existence. All that advice and therapy become useless when you realize that it’s the awareness and acceptance of yourself that gives meaning to your days. If you follow your vocation, your vision of life, you will never get bored. You will have the happy sensation of being yourself. You will experiment the fullness and depth of union with yourself and with the world. You will finally lead an authentic life....

Humanity dreams of love, but doesn’t know how to. People are afraid. They fear mystery. We’ve reached incredible levels of technical progress, but we still confuse love with posession. Society leaves love out of the journey of the world, out of relationships, and so doing, makes it an illusion imprisoned by omnipotent perfection… “and they lived happily ever after”… instead, all of this ends up killing love, rendering it a space where people mulitiply their...