Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

It’s noticeable in highly organized and complex societies that people are afraid of losing control of their lives. Over time we all get used to acquiring firm control of ourselves, allowing us to live well together in society, and that’s why self-control and courtesy are valued so highly, and why both are taught from the earliest childhood years. But that contributes to the wide diffusion of hypocrisy at all levels of society, since self-control means repressing...

The people who fully live their lives develop the two essential components of their lives that make them fully human: head and heart. Neither is more important than the other, but both are equally essential, so both need to be developed and expressed to their fullest potential and in full harmony, the one with the other. In fact, the persons who reach spiritual awareness live a healthy and natural balance between head and heart, and that will decide their behavior,...

By “vocation” I don’t mean an exclusively religious vocation, even if the word “vocation” is predominantly used in that context. But there are times when we follow an ideal, a passion, a deep desire, an inclination of our souls, an overwhelming urge to do something. To respond to your vocation (your call) is to participate in the work of our universe’s ongoing creation. You find yourself fitting into the plan of a universal intelligence...

Once you plumb the depths of your heart, you’ll discover there tenderness, goodness, sweetness…and maybe emptiness, too. If you find there bitterness, envy, and jealousy, try to free your heart of those things. Clean it out with a little calmness and patience. It’s always a painful but fascinating journey into the shadowlands of your own personality. But if one day you do find your heart empty, don’t let it scare you. I know from my own experience...

In the course of our existence, even if we are unaware of it, we live through different phases, different moments, different periods of our lives – sometimes imperceptible to us, at other times very noticeable – of our own making or forced upon us by others, we live through various changes. But change always precedes death and leads to rebirth – death of what we were and rebirth into what we will be. This process causes pain and suffering, and every time...

The readers of my blog will have noted from its start in the Year of Our Lord 2013 that my postings deal with concerns of current interest and try to lead the reader to a deeper understanding of those concerns, utilizing all I’ve gleaned during the course of my writing career. On the other hand, my way of looking at life, shared in the numerous books of mine published in Italy by ed.Paoline, has always been a dynamic, not a static one of the human person. Stretching...