Witness, NM

Final thoughts “The Word of God, born once in the flesh (such is his kindness and his goodness), is always willing to be born spiritually in those who desire him. In them he is born as an infant as he fashions himself in them by means of their virtues. He reveals himself to the extent…

Forgiving others’ trespasses for fun and profit “There is no one who does not know from his own experience that egoism and self-affirmation involve the sapping of our vital forces and in the long run the very destruction of life itself. While that ‘bad infinity’ which is constituted by the aching void of desire and…

Demuirgic epistemology “Pride and egoism lead to the abyss, to non-being, and to death. By isolating himself in himself, and by taking as the centre of his life not being but his own self, man is not only separated from God and from the sphere of the divine, but is also deprived of all true…

Temporal eternity “Logismoi are much more than simple thoughts. They penetrate into the very depths of a human being. They have enormous power. Let us say that a simple thought is a weak logismos. We need to realize, however, that certain thoughts, or logismoi, once inside a human being, can undermine every trace of a…

Pabst and Carl do some garden work “… as I understand, the subconscious is a storage space into which human beings pile up, so to speak, those memories and experiences they don’t want to be aware of… From the point of view of the true spiritual life we must eradicate the subconscious…” (Markides, quoting Fr.…

A search for Truth above all truths “Nevertheless, I would confess to thee my shame to thy glory. Bear with me, I beseech thee, and give me the grace to retrace in my present memory the devious ways of my past errors and thus be able to ‘offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.’ For…