Five factors outlining the difference between mood and emotion In an excerpt taken from “The Nature Of Emotion”, Dr. Ekman lays out five factors for determining mood vs emotion. Variations in duration, provocation, modulation, facial expression, and awareness of cause support Dr. Ekman’s argument for the difference between mood and emotion. Duration In the debate…
A hermit declared with evident satisfaction that “God will punish all atheists. They will burn in everlasting fire.” Obviously upset, the Staretz St Silouan said: “Tell me, supposing you went to paradise, and there you looked down and saw someone burning in hell fire, would you feel happy?” “It can’t be helped. It would be…
Step 26 On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues 1. Discernment in beginners is true knowledge of themselves; in intermediate souls it is a spiritual sense that faultlessly distinguishes what is truly good from what is of nature and opposed to it; and in the perfect it is the knowledge which they possess by divine…
“Stress can be constructive or destructive. It can encourage or discourage, move us along or stop us dead in our tracks, and make life meaningful or seemingly meaningless. Stress can inspire you to operate successfully and perform at your maximum efficiency in a survival situation. It can also cause you to panic and forget all…
65. The sinews of humility and its ways, but not its signs, are: poverty, hidden withdrawal from the world, concealment of wisdom, simplicity of speech, asking of alms, hiding of nobility, banishment of familiarity, putting chatter out of court. 66. Nothing can so humble the soul as a state of destitution and a beggar’s subsistence….
Step 25 On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling. 1. He who thinks that it is possible to use the visible word in order to describe the sensation and effect of the love of the Lord exactly, holy humility gracefully, blessed purity truly, divine enlightenment clearly, the…
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Christ is in our midst! [He is and ever shall be!] I would like to thank all parishioners, visitors, travelers, and friends for joining us. Today, is the first Sunday of Lent and the Sunday of Orthodoxy. The reading…
Step 24 On meekness, simplicity, guilelessness which come not from nature but from habit, and about malice. 1. The morning light precedes the sun, and the precursor of all humility is meekness. Therefore let us hear in what order the Light arranges these virtues, for He says: Learn of Me, for I am meek and…
6. A haughty monk contradicts violently, but a humble one cannot even look one in the face. 7. The cypress does not bend to live on earth; nor does a lofty-hearted monk do so to acquire obedience. 8. A proud person grasps at authority, because otherwise he cannot, or rather, does not want to be…
35. I do not know how it is, but the proud for the most part remain ignorant of their real selves, and they imagine that they are victorious over their passions, and they only realize their poverty when they depart from this life. 36. The man enmeshed in pride will need the help of God,…