“We cannot have two centers to our lives. We become spiritual only when we become, in the words of Athonite Father George Capsanis, theocentric instead of being self-centered. This is the same as saying: ‘But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you’ (Matthew 6:33).
Most people’s lives gravitate around their reactions to, thoughts about, and feelings resulting from the events of one’s life, while the theocentric life, whose center of gravity is the presence, the subtle but real action of Christ within one, is actually centered in our organism in a different way, in the nous. In this state, we no longer react to life, and it is only then that we can become a channel for the Lord.”
~Robin Amis
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