Joy and suffering can coexist on different levels of our being. Assagioli’s joy meditation opens with the case for cultivating joy as a spiritual discipline, even inside pain. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: LA GIOIA – Proemio Per Una MeditazioneTranslated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have […]
Communication With the Soul
Communication with the soul is rarely a clear inner voice. The answer arrives sideways, in a symbol or a book opened at random, and you can learn to invite it. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Come Decide? (How to Decide)Translated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have […]
Meditation For Individual and Collective Health
Meditation for collective health starts where you sit, loosening the neck and slowing the breath, then turns that healing outward to those you love and to all humanity. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Per La Salute Individuale E CollettivaTranslated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been […]
To Be A Soul, Having A Personality
Being a Soul breaks down the materialistic illusion of being bodies, bundles of emotions, sensations, thoughts, and leads into the realm of Truth. By Roberto Assagioli, date unknown, from the Assagioli Archive in Florence. Translated by Gordon Symons. Original Title: Essere (To Be). By making a vital distinction between having a Soul, (in which the […]
Inner and Outer Communications
Inner and outer communication is more than the words you choose: you are always receiving impressions and emitting into a shared psychic atmosphere your speech can poison or cleanse. By Roberto AssagioliFrom a series of lectures for the Meditation Group for the New Age, around 1965 —Tr.Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: ComunicazioneTranslated and edited with notes […]
Assagioli’s Wisdom Notes On Psychospiritual Work
These notes on psychospiritual work come down to daily discernment: telling an impulse ‘from above’ from one ‘from below’, and re-making yourself by affirming what you mean to become. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23071, Assagioli Archive, Florence [1] Original title: Appunti di lavoro psicospirituale (Notes on Psychospiritual Work)Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe […]
Training Of Intuition – Levels Of Reality
Training intuition is not waiting for a flash: it means carrying an insight down into reasoned argument, then building the same insight back up from the mind. By Roberto AssagioliIn conversation with BC, August 20, 1971Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Allenamento dell’intuizione – Livelli di realità – Conversazione con Roberto Assagioli di BCTranslated with notes by […]
The Breadth and Scope of Psychosynthesis
The scope of psychosynthesis is wider than one method for one seeker: it crosses five kinds of people and five fields of work, twenty-five doorways needing different keys. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Ampiezza e Portata della PsicosintesiTranslated with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have […]
Meditation with Roberto Assagioli on Acceptance
Meditation on acceptance is not passive surrender: it is an act of will, and without it the road to any real change stays blocked. By Roberto AssagioliTranscription of a live talk, August 15, 1972Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Meditazione con R. A. sulla AccettazioneTranslated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online […]
Spiritual Experience
Assagioli on spiritual experience: it cannot be argued into being but only walked toward, and only those who have made the journey can really speak of it. By Roberto AssagioliIn dialogue with studentsDoc. #23390, Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Esperienza Spirituale (dibattito)Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [1] Editorial NoteThe original is a corrected […]
