Discipline imposed by others does not help in repentance and does not help the soul to develop and become a person. Discipline is not the same as self-discipline, and obedience is different again. Those monasteries in teh West that began with discipline have collapsed.
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Video: Hierotheos Vlachos: freedom is won by overcoming our self-love
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However, it’s at this very moment that he can, with even more hope, say to God: ‘My God, not only am I begging you to intervene, but I believe that this is my only hope. And so you’ll do this, my God, since apart from this there’s no salvation for me’.
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The most precious thing in the world is to know God and understand His will, even if dimly: Blog of Father Athanasius Kone on the Orthodox Church from Greece and Hawaii
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