"It is crucial to know ourselves well, but I wouldn’t want to reassure you by this, not even if you arrived in the highest of heavens (…) But I believe that we’ll never know ourselves well, if we don’t try, all together, to know God"
Each and every one of us has the need of the strong interpretive keys in this present moment of a new culture of transformation.
We also need to know ourselves better, to know our blocks, our egoistic defense systems, our fears, our rages, our hatred and in this way even our most authentic desires, our needs, our spiritual aspirations etc. Thus, we are in need of a specific psychological self-learning.
We are in need of spiritual practices that are real experiences for us; we need to go from a preeminently represented religiosity (abstract concepts, moral laws, exterior rites) to a personally-fulfilled spirituality. Only an authentic spiritual realization of the celebrated mysteries can renew and give sense to liturgical celebrations.
"The oldest generation looks with concern its own children and their more or less strange behavior. But children tend to live the unconscious life that was never lived by their parents, the things that their parents have ignored or never dared to face, at times even deceiving themselves. (…) Parents have nothing to be surprised about except for their own lack of preparation, and the ignorance that they have of their own psychology, that at times is the fruit of a seed planted by their own parents: lack of preparation and ignorance perpetuates unto infinity the course of ‘not-knowing’ oneself. My solution to this problem is to educate the educators, create schools for adults"
"Authentic practices of meditation, with their origin from the Christian East and great non-Christian regions that attract today’s man, divided and disoriented, can offer a good way to help a person of prayer to stand before God interiorly calm, even in the midst of extreme solicitations"
