Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

I never believed in happiness nor tried to pursue it. Instead, I’ve always believed in serenity, inner peace, and the heart’s well being, which leaves us satisfied and open to life. Already in my first books I wrote about the need to reduce one’s neuroses, and I haven’t changed my mind about that. It’s still foremost in my thoughts and has been central to my personal view of things all along. It’s necessary to move from the lower levels...

The vital force in each one of us depends on our being connected to that which has no end.To be alive means to be courageous, possess a deep knowledge of myself, so as to be able to journey along unknown roads, ever aware that I am part of a timeless flow, but maintaining the desire to learn, to make sense of things on a psychospiritual level. Everything visible and concrete, looked at from a psychospiritual point of view, becomes a locus of the invisible, a place of...

Life possesses its own internal dynamism, made up of spontaneity, creativity, and the need for self-expression, along with the possibility of expressing oneself. If any of that is blocked or tangled in a web of falsity and darkness or outright oppression, the suffocated energy of life can’t find any other way out than in destructive violence, which can be directed either outward on to others and the surrounding world, or on to oneself.

Only the person who overcomes fear can be free. As a child, when I was helping my grandfather with his farm work, in between chores, I lay on my back in the grass and watched the movement of the clouds overhead. I always tried to discover the nature and essence of things and of people – of the world. Then in all my work I’ve always tried to look into the world (seen as a complex but unified place), in which all the parts move in relationship to all the others,...

From the moment you decide to move forward on the road to psychospiritual awareness, you will experience the persecution of those who are not at all interested in gaining that awareness, who base their lives on superficial things, and who don’t want you to go any deeper yourself. The lives and occupations of these persons presume the lack of psychospiritual awareness in others. They may have some small success, obeying, as they do, their own small-g, god and not the...

Underneath every conflict there is the denial of some spiritual reality. We can never be full human beings if we don’t have a deep relationship with God, Who lives in our hearts. The world in which we live impedes the growth of spiritual awareness because the world is unsettled and anxiety-producing. The laws that govern our society were made to defend the interests of the strong, not those of the weak. But the spirit that infuses and animates us is holy and enduring....