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Enjoy the Silence

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Soren Kierkegaard
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Mar 16 2020
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Many times I regretted that I spoke; I have never regretted keeping silent. Enjoy the Silence!

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What is true fasting

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Repentance
  • Saint Basil the Great
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
Mar 05 2020
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True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred and banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betrayal of vows.

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Accept your falls

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint Makarios
  • Saint Nektarios of Aegina
Jan 30 2020
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Patiently accept your falls and, having stood up, immediately run to God, not remaining in that place where you have fallen.

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Perhaps you are the most miserable person imaginable

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Feb 18 2017
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If you believe firmly that God cares for you, then you do not need to worry about the body, nor need you be concerned about

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Who sees the divine care?

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  • === Other ===
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Repentance
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Jan 14 2017
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Divine care surrounds all human beings all the time, but it is only seen by those who

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Words and Silence: the relationship

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Dec 16 2016
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Words are instruments of this world, but

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How to become immortal

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  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Dec 10 2016
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The man who has found love eats and drinks Christ every day and hour and so is made immortal. ‘Whoever eats of this bread’, He says, ‘which I will give him, will never taste death.’ Blessed is he who consumes the bread of love, which is Jesus! He who eats of love eats Christ, the God over all, as

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God is NOT an avenger – Photo Journal with Metropolitan Andrew of Cluj

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Victory over death
Nov 23 2016
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The man who chooses to consider God an avenger, presuming that in this manner he

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Sin is a blazing fire

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint Mark the Ascetic
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Nov 03 2016
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Sin is a blazing fire. The less fuel you give it, the faster it dies down; the more you feed it, the more it burns. Whoever does not voluntarily withdraw himself from

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How virtues are formed by prayer

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Ephraim the Syrian
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Saint John of the Ladder
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
  • Vices and virtues
Aug 22 2016
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Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit and raises man to Heaven. The highest form of prayer is…

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Like the shadow and the body

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Vices and virtues
Jun 03 2016
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Just as the shadow follows the body, so God’s mercy follows humble reflections. “Saint Isaac the Syrian”

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Strong eyes

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  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Apr 13 2016
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Just as a healthy eye desires the light, so, if fasting’s undertaken with discretion, it’s followed by a desire for prayer. “Saint Isaac the Syrian”

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St Isaac: How to behave at Christmas

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Dispassion
  • Love
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
Dec 25 2014
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Please read on: This poem has more than 1300 years.   This Nativity night bestowed peace on the whole world; So let no one threaten; This is the night of the Most Gentle One – Let no one be cruel; This is the night of the Humble One – Let no one be proud. Now is the day of joy – Let us not revenge; Now is the day of Good Will – Let us not be mean. In this Day of Peace – Let us not be conquered by anger. Today the…

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You are not wiser than God

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
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  • Prayer
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  • Saint Isaac the Syrian
Dec 21 2014
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If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything…

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