Perhaps what I’m saying is rather bold; spiritual experience can be preferable to God’s grace, at least at the beginning, because some of those who’ve had grace and didn’t have experience have lost the grace, while others who didn’t have grace but have had a spiritual experience have managed to gain grace.
Based on Elder Joseph the Hesychast
In this photograph, a brother of the monastery during one of the two annual processions around the monastery.
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