Acostuma-te, desde já, a enfrentar com alegria as pequenas limitações; a privação de alguma coisa que consideras imprescindível.

Vem, alma minha amiga, que queres ser fiel, mesmo que te sintas com misérias. Se queres emendar, se não vives para ti, se não teimas (...)

"We should start as a training not to talk about other people's lives or make negative comments about something or someone, which is so..."

St. John Climacus Therefore, prayed that saint who said: «With the favor of God I will pass the wall» ; and another, who in the person of...

THROUGH THE WORK OF MEDITATION, ACHIEVING REST AND THE TASTE OF CONTEMPLATION, MUST THEN CEASE FROM THAT PIEDOUS AND WORKING INVESTIGATION.