People See, People Do
People See, People Do Elaine Hatfield, a psychological researcher from the University of Hawaii and her husband, Dick Rapson, have spent a good part of their ca...
Category: Reflection
My reflections on various topics
On Virtue
… our whole soul should have at every moment a clear eye, able to watch and notice the thoughts entering our heart from the evil one and repel them. The heart m...
Every day . . .
Every day is a pop quiz.
Neutral Angels
Dante Alighieri, born in 1265 in Florence, is perhaps the greatest non-religious, technical poet to have ever lived. Not a single poet has been capable of repli...
St Moses the Black
“Once the Fathers of the Scetis were holding a council to reprimand a monk who had committed a fault. St. Moses was invited, but he refused to attend. The pries...
Know this first . . .
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. – 2 Peter 1:20
If—
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yo...
The Lord reigns
“The Lord reigns, let the peoples rage;” (Ps 98/99: 1, Septuagint-translation) Re-focus on His judgment and kingship. “Put not your trust in princes, in a...
Take a hard stone . . .
Take are hard stone with sharp corners. Knock it and rub it against other stones, until its sharpness and hardness are crushed by the knocking and rubbing and, ...
Instead . . .
“You, however, have not been appointed to decree vengeance upon men’s deeds and works, but rather to ask for mercy for the world, to keep vigil for salvation of...