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. […]
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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 […]
Everything works for the good alone
I don’t know how you take things, but it is of very great importance that one sees everything within the providence of God: his whole self, the conditions […]
I thank you, my Lord
“I thank you, my Lord, that you allowed me to see what I am” The event of salvation is conscious. We should know this and not fear […]
Knowledge of ourselves, communion with God
It’s not suffering itself which opens the eyes of the soul. But it’s exactly what helps you to humble yourself. It’s exactly what helps you to see your selfishness, […]