Fear
Where there is no fear there is no need for defensiveness. Judgment relies on fear. So does hate. Hate is wedded to and attached to grudges. A person filled wit...
Category: Reflection
My reflections on various topics
Funeral Ikos
Words from the service for the burial of priests. Why these bitter words of the dying, O brethren, which they utter as they go hence? I am parted from my brethr...
Articles
The Mystery of Integrity: An Overview (and here) The Holy Mystery of Integrity: A Mere Footnote to History (and here)
A Tale of Integrity and Conformity
The king of Babylon sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki’ah; for he heard that Hezeki’ah had been sick. And Hezeki’ah welcomed them, and he showed t...
I was asked a question . . .
Regarding the following paper: Our World At War: Part II – Darkness At Noon . . . I was asked a question about this paragraph: “All of the above is reinfo...
Cowardice
If you pursue virtue in a monastery or community, you are not likely to be attacked much by fear. But the man who spends his time in more solitary places should...
Will You Run Out of Time?
“Several years ago, my father died as he had done most things throughout his life: without preparation and without consulting anyone. He simply went to bed one ...
Conformism
Conformism, meanwhile, is a preference to act in the same way as others in one’s community. The urge to conform is a profound part of the human psyche and...
It’s What I’ve Said Before
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brother Karamazov, pages 48-49 Richard Pevear, (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky, (Translator) Yes, it’s clearly what I have said b...
It’s Just Not True
A priest says that the “problem between Constantinople and Moscow [and the remainder of the local Orthodox Churches] is a concern of the priests and not t...