HOLY SILENCE

The happiness we perceive in this life is never permanent. It fleets and it fools. It is most often dependent on the actions of others....

"Do not fritter away the time given you for repentance. Do not rivet your eyes to the earth on which you are a momentary actor, on which...

"Our mind is so darkened by the fall that unless we force ourselves to remember death we can completely forget about it. When we forget...

"The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with...

"Today the faithful celebrate the feast with joy illumined by your coming, O Mother of God. Beholding your pure image we fervently cry to...

"The body at work but the thought with God - such should be the state of a true Christian. "We should set in order our inner state as...

"Do not overlook the fact that health does not depend on food alone, but above all on inner peace. Life in God, cutting us off from...

"The descent of the mind into the heart by the way of breathing is suggested for the case of anyone who does not know where to hold his...

"Be concentrated within yourself and try not to leave the heart, for the Lord is there. Seek this state and work for it. When you have...

God wants you to know He will not abandon you in your sorrow. Meditate on this irmos (a miniature hymn), from Ode 6 of The Great Canon of...