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“The person who has holiness, no matter where he is, somehow creates an electromagnetic spiritual field around himself and influences those who come within this field.”~ Saint Paisios of Mount Athos Elder Paisios of Mount Athos p.17 Song: Crystal Gayle’s “Half the way”, 1979. Songwriters: Bobby Wood / Raplh James Murphy.

“He who wants to do something and cannot is, in the eyes of God who sees our hearts, as though he has done it. This should be understood as being so in relation to good and evil alike.” ~ St. Mark the Ascetic Song: “Cry to Me” Solomon Burke 1962 Songwriters: Bert Russell (Bert Burns)

“Once emotions attach themselves to thoughts, they arouse more and more thoughts. The person loses himself in his thoughts and feelings as in a kind of virtual reality, unaware that he can stand back from them. His thinking has become compulsive, fed by the powerful combination of thought-desire-emotion which we call passion. Such is the life of the ego. Man's spirit is directed solely by the passions, and moves further and further from its Creator.” ~ Hieromonk Damascene (Christensen) Christ the Eternal Tao p.28 Song: Jackie DeShannon’s “What The World Needs Now Is Love” (1965). Songwriters: Burt F. Bacharach / Hal David

“How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honours, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects—how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us — when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?” ~ Righteous John, Wonderworker of Kronstadt My Life in Christ p.243 Songwriters: Burt Bacharach / Hal David Song: Don't Make Me Over lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Capitol CMG Publishing, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

“On the social front, there is divisiveness into parties, always accompanied with evil slander and mutual hatred, a lack of mutual understanding, and unwillingness to work together for the benefit of society.” ~ Archbishop Averky (Taushev) The Struggle for Virtue: Asceticism in a Modern Secular Society p.63 Songwriters: Joshua Robin Teskey/Liam J Gough / Samuel George Teskey/Brendon Paul Love Song: Hold Me lyrics © Downtown Dlj Songs

“Let us come to our senses so that we may understand our life more deeply, so that our prayers may be felt more intensely. When we pray, we should feel Christ in our hearts.”~ Gerondissa Makrina (Vassopoulou) Words of the Heart p.50. Song: This Is The Right Time. Songwriters: Andy Morris / Ian Owen Devaney / Lisa Jane Stansfield.

“Should anyone find fault with your abilities, say: “I do not give myself such and not other abilities, they are the gift of God; therefore to find fault with my abilities is the same as to find fault with the Creator, Who gave them.” ~ Righteous John, Wonderworker of Kronstadt My Life in Christ p.55 Song: “I’m Alive” Songwriters: Andreas Carlsson / Kristian Lundin

“The way to keep guard over our heart is immediately to expel from the mind every demon-inspired recollection of women — even of mother or sister or any other devout woman — lest by dwelling on it for too long the mind is thrown headlong by the deceiver into debased and pernicious thoughts.” ~ St. John Cassian Philokalia, Vol. 1 p.76 Song: “Let’s Make Love” Writers: Marv Green, Aimee Mayo, Chris Lindsey, Bill Luther.

“Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them, no one can see God.” 3 (§§ 67-75 are identical with St Maximos the Confessor, Fourth Century on Love, §§ 58, 64, 65, 50-52, 63; Second Century, § 40; First Century, § 76; Fourth Century, § 72.) ~ St. Hesychius the Theologian of Jerusalem, disciple of St. Gregory the Theologian Philokalia, Vol. 1 p.174 Song and Lyricist: “Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard.

“With comforts, false honours, and niceties there is no salvation or progress.” ~ Elder Joseph the Hesychast Elder Arsenios the Cave-dweller (1886-1983) p.117

“Prayer is the flower of gentleness and of freedom from anger.”~ Evagrios the Solitary Philokalia, Vol. 1 p.58

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.” 🛎️ –Alfred, Lord Tennyson(1809-92)

May Hearts be softened in love of one another💞 “Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.”~ St. Gennadius of Constantinople The Golden Chain

“The intellect does many good and bad things without the body, whereas the body can do neither good nor evil without the intellect. This is because the law of freedom applies to what happens before we act.” ~ Saint Kosmas Aitolos “Take care to bridle the flesh, that it might not plunge its rider — the mind — into danger.” ~ Venerable Ephraim the Syrian A Spiritual Psalter or Reflections on God p.200

The answer is always Love. “When we approach someone with pain and true love, then this true love of Christ transforms our neighbor.”~ Saint Paisios of Mount Athos Spiritual Councils IV: Family Life p.174 “If it is necessary to chastise a person in order to instruct him or to prevent him from falling into a worse mishap, He does so with mercy, and, if a person is able to accept this in the right spirit, He rewards him greatly, as though He feels sorry for having issued the punishment. Those whose inner vision has begun to clear can see God’s amazing Providence over man in things both great and small.” ~ Abbot Nikon Vorobiev Abbot Nikon Letters to Spiritual Children p.85 “Chastise yourself for even the slightest transgression of God’s commandments, not allowing any self-justification.” Abbot Nikon Vorobiev Abbot Nikon Letters to Spiritual Children p.130

“All the labor and all the care of our adversary, says St. Macarius the Great, consists in trying to divert our thought from the rememberance of God and from love for Him. To this end he uses the charm of the world,and draws us away from the true good to false, unreal goods.” ~ Venerable Macarius the Great of Egypt On the Prayer of Jesus p.88

Sometimes a soul just has to say “‘Hey Google’, ‘Sorry Alexa’, ‘World!’, I’m having a really bad day, I just gonna sit here & cry out my supplications to the Lord until I pass out. Thank You.” 😘💋 Much Love 💕✌🏻Stay human🌪❤️‍🩹☦️🕊🌹 #freedom #truelove #cosmos #justbeyourself