Do not start a long conversation with the one who listens to you with a bad attitude, because you will make him feel very uncomfortable with you and will […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
Elder Efraim of Arizona. God tries with every means to awaken us.
How precious is the time of this life! Every minute has great worth, for within one minute we can think so many things, either good or evil. One […]
Giving up smoking
Giving up smoking Some of my spiritual children told me that they gave up the passion of smoking because when they went to a monastery, they heard a crazy […]
How to practice the Jesus prayer
Sit down alone and in silence, lower your head, close your eyes, breathe calmly, and imagine yourself looking into the depths of your heart. Walk your thoughts through this […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona. When you are ill….
I pray that you will always be healthy. But when you are ill, bear patiently the chastening of the Lord which is sent from His affectionate and immense heart. […]
The value of the spiritual father
When I was younger in the world, I had seen a movie that stuck in my memory, and this movie helped me at the beginning of my life as […]
First of all is prayer
The saddest thing of all is that the vain wisdom of this world expects that divine matters are measured with human metrics and standards. Many people think wrongly about […]
Don’t be angered by any words they say to you
Don’t be angered by any words. Just do whatever you can to not provoke them. If, however, you do not manage to prevent them, ignore them. As I told […]
They are all for you
Happiness is when you rejoice and praise the Lord for what you have, remaining content and staying away from complaints, sadness, and distress over what you dream you should […]
This dead man is not like others
Death was terrorized seeing a dead Man, who did not look at all like the other dead, that had descended into Hades. This Man was not bound by the […]