How good it would have been if we did not let pain go to waste! One way or another we will suffer. But our whole torture and struggle […]
Category: Spiritual Life
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“A person ought to act in accordance with his spiritual state. To do, therefore, things that correspond to the spiritual state in which he finds himself”. (i.e., to not […]
Giving spiritual water…
Do not ashamed and do not ignore to give “spiritual water” to other people who are thirsty. He who keeps for himself the beneficial knowledge that he has and […]
Why are you hurting, dear man?
Why are you hurting so much? Not for any other reason, but because there is resistance in you, because there is rebellion. And here is how this rebellion works. […]
The techniques of spiritual warfare, and of the spiritual life.
Man’s soul is like a tangled ball of yarn “These experiences are to be thrown out, but am I holding onto them?” To set the stage, […]
My prison, my executioners, are my genes
It is not only those who struggle to make ends meet, those who have to deal with a multitude of problems in order to […]
Walking together with God
If whatever we go through, we take it the right way and see it as a blessing from God –because indeed it is a blessing– we will feel so […]
“Good” parents with … “bad” children
Parents, good parents, who are spiritual people, come to me to complain about their child, who has gone astray. And I say: “Look, you may consider yourselves good and […]
Pain is a shortcut to salvation
It says in the Gerondikon: “In the morning you may be in hell and in the evening you can be in paradise”. What is meant is that in the […]
Christians of comfort
Like the deep sea… Spiritual work happens secretly in the heart. Externally, let everything else threaten us. Like the sea: The wind blows, waves rise. But deep down it’s […]