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“Modern man wants everything to fit within his own perspective and resents being awakened from his blissful stupor. This is why he mocks, slanders, distorts, attacks, rejects, and hates whatever lies beyond his own worldview. He does not want to think, because television has taught him to hate thinking. He does not want to ask himself questions, because it is too tiring to do so. He doesn’t want to struggle to go beneath life’s superficiality, because modern culture has made him comfortable as he lives the pampered life of a hungry consumer in a cage of materialism. In”
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
“That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.”
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“The destruction of psychological Truth by literal truth is the continual drama of human life.”
― The New Man: An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ
― The New Man: An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ

“The fullness of existence, life’s true richness, does not consist solely in health and happiness but in an ever-expanding range of joy and sorrow; and the broader the range, the richer life becomes.”
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“At a certain point, I noticed an enormous discrepancy between the image I had formed in my mind about Christians and Christian life and what I saw and experienced there. I had always thought that Christians were narrow-minded, devious wretches with psychological problems. I had thought the Christian Faith and the Church were dead, and I had always viewed the Christian tradition as a relic of the past, used by charlatans, swindlers, and other lowlifes.”
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
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