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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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St Theophan on addiction: how to overcome temptation

31 May 2016 By Andrew

In Unseen Warfare, Part I, Chapter 14, St Theophan writes about what to do when we find ourselves unable to control our physical desires.

Despite all that we know about how addiction forms our brains and weakens our ability to resist the temptations, it is nonetheless true that we can find the will to resist — indeed, there are always still times when we do manage to resist. St Theophan emphasizes here the power of… [ read more ]

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