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For the time being I live in a cave. I have wonderful silence. I am the luckiest of men, for I live without cares and enjoy the honey of silence unceasingly. And when grace departs for just a little, silence comes as another grace and it shelters me in its harbor. And thus, the pains…
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[The powers of darkness] are not fought with sweets and Turkish Delight, but with conduits of tears, with pain of the soul until death, with extreme humility and great patience, with unceasing painful prayer. – Elder Joseph the Hesychast (1898-1959)
“When we’re in the grace of the Holy Spirit our prayer becomes pure…”
“When we’re in the grace of the Holy Spirit our prayer becomes pure…”
“I point out the things I must, but you will profit more when…”
I point out the things I must, but you will profit more when, rather than my saying many words, you yourself shed two or three tears before Christ. – Elder Amphilochios (Makris) of Patmos (1889-1970)