The humble knowledge of our own self should be honored as more important that all sciences together. St. Nikodemos the Hagiorate

Maintain pure your soul as the most important piece of your life. St. Basil the Great

Do you want to find the Eternal Life? Well then maintain these two things: faith and humility. St. Isaac the Syrian source: www.orthodoxpath.org

Wisdom from Elder Symeon

Our whole relationship with God is of this nature: how to live in comfort in this world or in this life, how to have a good time (be in good health, with thriving business, in a good house with a nice family and children on the right track –studying, making progress, becoming important–, in other words, successful in all respects).

That’s the point where, most of the time, our whole effort to have communication with God gets. We try so that God may help us in this direction.

God offers Himself to us and what we take is just crumbs –exterior things, conventional and temporary– and we content ourselves with these. We fail to see the essence of things and miss the most substantial thing God has to offer us. So, we lie idle and vegetate.

Why don’t people come to an understanding? Why don’t they find the truth? Why does everyone want to have it his own way? Because man doesn’t start from God. Turning towards himself, man allows his egomania and self-love work like a worm, work like poison inside him. Elder Symeon

The more man believes in God, the more he is redeemed from self-love, egocentricity and egoism.

You should give Christ a free hand, entrust your being to Christ, love Him and believe that everything that happened to the saints can happen in your own soul, too.

If you realize your dire spiritual condition and submit yourself to God, then God releases you from it.

People suffering from inferiority, the more they see other people enjoying life, the more they get hurt by it. However, if man finds Christ, everything holding him back goes.

Man can do nothing, unless he relies on God’s love. This is the beginning, the middle, and the end: the love of God.

Let us live in this truth that God loves us all day long. Then, everything has a meaning and man cannot get enough of loving and following Christ. Elder Symeon

We should examine ourselves carefully and our expressions, too. We should wonder: is what we do virtuous or does our own personal interest lurk behind?