“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to…
Category: Mindfulness, Faith & Spirituality
A contemplative life is a life of deep meaning, purpose, and joy.
What is happy? Hard to say when it feels like all I do is chase everything but happy. A text. An email. A flight. A bill. A fire to put out. A worry that won’t go away. Regret. Constant noise. So I run from it. Even if I’m eating the…
Standing in liturgy this Sunday, a wave of despair washed over me. A multitude of decisions I wish I could take back swirled in my mind and created a blinding haze of despondency. Bad habits, hard to break, overwhelmed me. My body, worn and broken, reminded me that the fitness…
I’ve just finished Saint Theophan the Recluse’s, The Path to Salvation. The final chapter includes his translation of Saint John Chrysostom on raising children, and it completely unsettled my comfortable modern mindset. As Chrysostom lays out how to bring up children in the faith, the sheer weight of eternity and the…
The tyrannical government of Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown. He was a brutal dictator, deserving his place in the dustbin of history. His regime mastered the art of torturing and disappearing its own citizens, ruling through fear and intimidation. But war is rarely that clear-cut. Assad also protected one of…
The gate to personal destruction is wide, and in today’s world, it has never been easier to open. With a single click, we can access a world that tells us exactly what we want to hear, while quietly corroding our souls. This is the essence of modern algorithms—they offer a…