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“In the 6th century A.D., a monk and writer by the name of John Moschos took his disciple Sophronius on a pilgrimage the ancient holy sites of Christianity. Along the way, they visited a monastery in Egypt, located on the site where Anthony the Great, the founder of monasticism, spent most of his life in a desert cave. They also went to Mount Sinai, where another monastery was built on the site where Moses saw the burning bush.

In making their pilgrimage, the pilgrims’ purpose was simple: to discover a practical way to encounter the mystery of Jesus Christ and become partakers of divine nature. In short, they wanted to know how to be saved. The many Christian spiritual elders that they met on their travels testified to a single practice, which began in the early 3rd century and was later called Hesychia—the Way of Inner Stillness. The practice of Hescychia, according to the elders, involves sitting or standing in a quiet corner, focusing all of your attention on your heartbeat and repeating with attention a single short prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.’

John and Sophronius discovered that this simple prayer—called ‘the Jesus Prayer’—is in fact the heart of ancient Christian spirituality. To this day, Hescyhia remains the most important spiritual practice of the Orthodox Church. The essence of the Jesus Prayer consists in the word ‘mercy,’ which in Orthodox tradition connotes healing and wholeness, rather than pardon or clemency. Daily, moment by moment and heartbeat by heartbeat, we call on Jesus Christ to heal us, binding up the self-inflicted, deadly wounds of sin, and reuniting us with God in love and joy. Hesychia allows us to call upon beauty—the glory of God revealed in Jesus Christ—to save us by restoring us to the true humanity for which we were created.”

~Fr. Richard Rene

(Photo © dramoor 2014 - Prayer on a wall at Pskov Cave Monastery, Russia)

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Out of every living organism on Earth, humans identify the closest with a virus. We expand uncontrollably, we destroy our host (our host being Earth,) and we have no stable means of not eradicating ourselves without expanding to a new planet. These main characteristics define us as a virus, we consider ourselves intelligent beings, in fact, the smartest on the planet, but tell me what intelligent thing constantly destroys the only home they have? Every other animal on the planet co-exists with nature, their homes are built in nature not by destroying it but by using what they need and nothing more. Animals live in the forests without destroying them creating nurturing ecosystems to support them and the many other animals around, there is a balance. Then there are humans, we rip down entire forests to build our homes we destroy fragile ecosystems to support our needs. We completely wipe other species off the face of the planet for sport, not need, just for fun. We adapt the environment to us not adapt to the environment just like a virus. Humans have destroyed our home, we have poisoned our air and water and destroyed the fragile ecosystem of the world. As they say, wipe out one animal and it will in time reach us in a negative aspect. Something as small as the mosquito disappearing could adversely affect the food chain, and humans went straight for bees, literally one of the lifeblood animals of the planet. We have genetically altered crops to make it harder for animals to eat them, meaning food becomes scarce for the animals that depended on them (sort of like a system of cells being attacked by a virus) there is literally nothing that we as human beings do positive for the planet. It is getting to the point of no return currently we are sitting like a stage three cancer (I know that's not a virus) and we are going as fast as we can to make the world become terminal and die. When it comes down to it the kids of the future will ask us what happened and what will we say? "the money was good" or "we had no choice" but really we all could be the breath of change. We can fix our virus ridden traits and fix the world work with it as to save it from ourselves or come to the conclusion we are facing a rapidly approaching end of days and because we were too stuck on money, we didn't make the choice to cure the world we decided to stay as a virus.

Chris Littrell, 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬.𝘤𝘰𝘮, 9 Mar. 2019.

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I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

C.S. Lewis, letter (1953)

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"Nie jestem nikim nadzwyczajnym. Tak jak wszyscy inni budzę się każdego ranka i chodzę spać każdego wieczoru. Tak jak wszyscy inni czuję. Tak jak wszyscy inni cierpię. Tak jak wszyscy inni szukam szczęścia. Tak jak wszyscy inni po prostu żyję."

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