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I recently completed The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology, compiled by Igumen Chariton of Valamo.
The book follows the movement from outward prayer to inner prayer. Prayer begins with words, grows through attention, and may eventually become rooted in the Heart through Grace.
At the center is the Jesus Prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me.
This post is a short overview of its main teachings.
Continue reading “The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology overview”I recently bought and read The Heart: An Orthodox Christian Spiritual Guide by Archimandrite Spyridon Logothetis (2001).
This post will be a quick summary/overview of the book.
Continue reading “The Heart: An Orthodox Christian Spiritual Guide overview”Similarly to a previous overview, I bought this book called “Orthodox Psychology” some time ago. It contains two books inside, and I recently completed the first one:
In this blog post, I’ll write an overview of the second book.
Continue reading “Conquering Depression: Heavenly Wisdom from God Illumined Teachers overview”I bought this book called “Orthodox Psychology” some time ago. It contains two books inside, and I recently completed the first one:
In this blog post, I’ll write an overview of the first book, which is authored by a psychotherapist.
Continue reading “Neurosis: Spiritual Causes and Manifestations overview”1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13
Don’t forget to examine yourself as you read every word
And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one.
1 Corinthians 2:15
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