Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

Mistakes happen. However more serious than a mistake is not recognizing your error and not letting it purify and mature you. You need courage to look at yourself; to put you in front of yourself; to face and accept your own shadows, your weak and negatives spots. This unmasking process is not possible by your strength alone. You need help from another person, from another “you” that consults you. Recognizing your mistakes aids in the death of the false self so that you can...

Listening allows for memory. A memory, like listening, makes us get out of our selfishness and closure. It renders us courageous, available and constructive. In every form of neurosis there are always feelings of omnipotence and rejection of one’s limits. Only unforgotten mistakes allow for a greater awareness and a greater acceptance of self and others.

To know how to smile, you have to know how to listen. Being able to listen lies in openness to new worlds, like that of a child. Being able to listen goes beyond the ego and is independent of it. This discovery of a mutability beyond the ego is not easy. It takes an entire life to go through the process of emptying, of giving up the manipulation of reality for your own selfish objectives.

Closed door. In the sky the black moon peaks out. Have you stitched my memory in the freezing sand. Why do you cry?

Many people don’t know how to smile because they are incapable of freeing themselves from illusions, ideas, and mental representations that only reflect the ego’s desires and prescind from the changeability of the material world. Illusions reveal an ego closed in itself and closed to relationship. Becoming free of illusions is an interior task. Therefore, knowing how to smile means not separating yourself from the totality, not forgetting that you are part of it and not...

I received many emails complimenting the poems. This encourages me to write more of them, that is, when I feel inspired. Dark wind black stars the red moon rises above the pond penetrating closed eyes without light.