Feb 23, 2012

Pleasure is exciting. Happiness is transcendent. More importantly, pleasure is dopamine. And happiness is serotonin.

Feb 2, 2012

Neither all those in the desert were saved nor all those in the world were lost...

Jan 30, 2012

There you are.

Jan 24, 2012

A brother once went out on a pilgrimage from the monastery of Abba Poemen, and came to a hermit, who lived in love towards all and received many visitors...

Jan 2, 2012

Make the effort to rise from the ground. Remember the good Shepherd who will follow and rescue you. Remember the mercies of God and how He cures with oil and wine.

Oct 20, 2011

These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the Philokalia, the collection of Orthodox Christian spiritual wisdom. And they are disciplines every single one of us can practice, no matter where we are in life...

Sep 8, 2011

An encounter with Life in a Soviet death camp. During one of the winters, a young man was assigned to Father Arseny's barracks. Still young, he did not fully understand what lay ahead of him...

Aug 31, 2011

Check our intention to see if we are as interested in others getting their needs met as our own...

Mar 27, 2011

Originally, askesis just meant athletic training: "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us."

Mar 16, 2011

OK. So you're a pacifist. What would you do if someone were, say, attacking your grandmother?   ...a dialogue with Joan Baez.