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One Love
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| Posted 11/19/2011 12:26 PM (GMT -6) |   | | Thanks, Tom, for finding the goldmine!!
MUST, MUST, MUST read some of this stuff, y'all!
and...for some "cliff notes", as it were...
"The whole spiritual vision of Bishop Kallistos had three very simple points.
Do not resent.
Do not react.
Keep inner stillness.
These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the Philokalia, the collection of Orthodox Christian spiritual wisdom. And they are disciplines every single one of us can practice, no matter where we are in life – whether we’re in the monastery or in school; whether we’re housewives or retired; whether we’ve got a job or we’ve got little kids to run after. If we can hold on to and exercise these three principles, we will be able to go deeper and deeper in our spiritual life."
Theosis or bust.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. | | Back to Top | | |
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Tom
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| Posted 11/20/2011 11:59 AM (GMT -6) | | The one bad thing about that download is that you can't edit the pdf (like add sticky notes or take snap-shots of passages to copy into a Word doc for comment). But it's still readable!
A few tid-bits from Evagrios Pontikos:
On Prayer: 153 Texts
52 We practice the virtues in order to achieve contemplation of the inner essences (logoi) of created things, and from this we pass to contemplation of the Logos who gives them their being; and he manifests himself when we are in the state of prayer.
61 If you are a theologian, you will pray truly. And if you pray truly, you are a theologian.
67 When you are praying, do not shape within yourself any image of the Deity, and do not let your intellect be stamped with the impress of any form; but approach the Immaterial in an immaterial manner, and then you will understand.
78. When you think that you do not need tears for your sins during prayer, reflect on this: you should always be in God, and yet you are far from him. Then you will weep with greater feeling.
121. Blessed is the monk who regards every man as God after God.
122. Blessed is the monk who looks with great joy on everyone’s salvation and progress as if they were his own.
125. A monk is one who regards himself as linked with every man through always seeing himself in each.
153. If when praying no other joy can attract you, then truly you have found prayer.
(Evagrios precedes Maximus by quite a bit; so the idea of "contemplating the logoi of created things" precedes Maximus. For some reason I thought Maxi came up with it.)
"The aesthetic value the world has for God is in expressing, not constituting, the aesthetic value God eternally finds within Godself." Greg Boyd | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 11/20/2011 12:09 PM (GMT -6) | | | "...the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
"...when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
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