Everyone has the responsibility of understanding the deeper meaning of life... If they did this, then people wouldn't be mean and petty, nor would they grumble with one another.
"Whoever lives in the past is as if dead. Whoever lives in the future in his imagination is naive, because the future belongs only to God. The Joy of Christ is found only in the present, in the Eternal Present of God" - St Gavrilia -
If you want to be saved, seek a spiritual guide, a spiritual father, who will teach you the evangelical way of life - that is, to live according to the Gospel, not according to your own will. But if you refuse to obey a guide and follow your own will instead, then you will learn the demonic
Self love must be eradicated. Every sin comes from the love of self. Sin always appears, or feigns to be, to wish us well, promising us plenteousness and ease.
The man who endures accusations against himself with humility has arrived at perfection. He is marvelled at by the holy angels, for there is no other virtue so great and so hard to achieve.
Do not fear the conflict, do not flee it. Where there is no struggle, there is no virtue; where faith and love are not tempted, it is not possible to be sure whether they are really present. They are proved and revealed in adversity.
The man who endures accusations against himself with humility has arrived at perfection. He is marveled at by the holy angels, for there is no other virtue so great and so hard to achieve.
F you cannot practice noetic prayer in the world—and this is very difficult—you must pray with the Jesus prayer at set times, or say it whenever you can. It will do you great good."
What salt is for any food, humility is for every virtue. To acquire it/a man must always think of himself with contrition, self-belittlement and painful salf-judgment. But if we acquire it, it will make us sons of God.
If you have sinned, acknowledge the sin and repent. God will forgive the sin and once again give you a new heart...and a new spirit (Ez. 36:26). There is no other way: Either do not sin, or repent.
despondency, for it gives birth to every evil. A thousand temptations come from it agitation, rage, blame, complaint against one's fate, profligate thoughts, constant change of place.
