Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

  I have never believed that love can be caged in intellectual, ideological, systems or formulas,… but we can reach it through freedom, which I believe is found in the most radical solitude. We must free ourselves of desire and the eagerness to possess others, in order to arrive at love. When people ask me to speak about spirituality I have no formal definition… but we need to think rather of aspiring to freedom from everything, aspire to reaching a dimension in which we...

  In occasion of the RED MOON and total eclipse on June 15, 2011. Laying on the earth, covered with dry grass, immersed in the dark and silence of my hermitage contemplating the stars. RED MOON I listen to the silence Broken By the night’s panting Laying nude On the yellow grass … I prepare my soul To be possessed By the red moon I fly through starry skies Under olive trees Protected by wild boars In the dark of the...

  You should not think that to love you need to meet someone… but rather to love you need to know how to enter deeply into the reality of the moment are in. If you believe you love because you met a person, it is probably attraction or compassion… but if you know how to live reality you come to know freedom and love… not so much for a person or thing, but love in itself… it will be this love that radiates toward the external.

  Yesterday I was interviewed for a Jesuit magazine in Brazil… they asked me how I live when I am living as a hermit… I didn’t know what to say… now I would say that I spend many hours reflecting on the corruption inherent in every type of attachment… I think about anxiety, suffering and the slavery that comes from them… and I contemplate instead the profound joy of interior freedom that comes from being detached… to break the tie of attachment one needs to know how to...

  For me passing from a generic openness to others to an innate kindness of the soul has been a slow process of maturation. I’ve passed to a true awareness of love toward all the living beings that surround me. If I think of my existence here on earth as a journey, I realize that in the things I encounter, in the people, the situations, in nature… I find direction, signs to better orient my growth journey. If I think that I came to this earth only to better myself, to...

  For the view of the powerful, insensitive to the appeal of the ineffable and of mystery, every type of being is reduced to pure matter, to be used and exploited. This leads to a type of relationship with the world that is selfish and utiliarian, in which the real is seen not in itself or in relationship with who created it, but in relationship with ourselves and the needs it can satisfy. It’s a disrespectful relationship, a greedy and manipulative one, like the one a...