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Filling my Emptiness

4 August 2016 By Andrew

St Theophan the Recluse said that, “Most people are like a shaving of wood which is curled round its central emptiness.”

Much of my life — and I assume, much of life for many of us — is directed at trying to fill that emptiness. The question to ask of ourselves, of course, is How? How do we do it? We all have instinctive, unconscious ways of doing it, ways that we have been practising… [ read more ]

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