For everybody that lives in the world, do not despair when you are possessed by many passions, the weight of your sins is extremely heavy, and you feel you […]
Category: Spiritual Life
Man is able to become holy without dark basements and repressed experiences
Before man sinned, he didn’t have dark basements and repressed experiences hidden deep within him. Roman Catholics, and even more so Protestants, hold that man was created by […]
Avoid the causes
“Avoid the causes, what triggers sin. For example, if you have diabetes and you are supposed not to eat sweets, how can you stop them if all […]
On Fasting
The Nativity fast has begun and our Orthodox Church calls upon us to renew our spiritual struggle. So let us remind ourselves of the benefits of fasting. Fasting […]
Make good use of pain
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 […]
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 […]