Think, person, whether it is worth reading this booklet! Be careful not to harm your health or get infected with harmful ideas! Everything is learned through the distance of failure! What health is—only the sick, those who have lost health, know. But how can one who was born sick and has never known a normal…

To your critical, judicious, and skeptical attention, I offer this second compilation of quotes from my spiritual father. I have attempted to select and classify these quotes by certain themes, as best I could, which I wanted to highlight and share. Thoughts may sometimes repeat. This is because quotes that are almost identical in form…

Every creature that exists desires happiness and well-being (the best for themselves)! Happiness (synonym: bliss, beatitude) is the fullness of pleasure, peace, joy, and absolute freedom! You may ask: what about those who commit suicide, the devil, and angels who have fallen from God, and all who do objective evil to themselves?! Yes, when we…

The Church has been proclaiming the Great Joy – the Gospel (Good News, Message) – for two thousand years: The Kingdom of God has arrived, it is already among you and within you! ‘I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people,’ ‘Rejoice!’, ‘That your joy may be full’, ‘No…

God is Love – this is the essence of the Gospel, the Joyous Good News that the Church has been proclaiming for two thousand years. (The word ‘God’ and all divine names are icons pointing to the One who created everything, in whom everything exists, moves, and has its being, who is everywhere and fills…

In the previous chapter, we discussed how Orthodox Christians, based on their experience (as they claim), testify that Happiness has arrived and been granted to us. That is, a person can already be Happy, live in the fullness of joy, freedom, and truth. However, there seems to be a contradiction – how can there be…