So many are the causes of fear, and they all come out of
one’s own heart.
Some fear slander from others, fear their attacks and plotting; and some fear their envy. One who believes in the envious eye and its harm will keep afraid. The cause of his fear is not the power of the envious eye, but the weakness of his heart that believes in that.—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Fruits of the Spirit
Category: FEAR
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“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.”
―Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird -
Among the items that waste time is for the mind to replay what it saw during the day. It finds audiovisual flashbacks of the entire past: discussions, images, actions, meetings, and conversations, as well as the mind’s consequent inferences— this consumes a great amount of time.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Monastic Treasures for All of Us
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Even all the incidents you experience are permitted by God so you can gain a spiritual benefit from them…
There are those who become nervously, psychologically or mentally affected by incidents. Others are affected spiritually by whatever events they experience; everything that happens to them makes them closer to God….
The people that you meet, are sent by God. Passing your way, they are for your own spiritual benefit, if you know how to benefit from them.
The righteous present you with an example and a blessing, while you benefit endurance, patience, and forgiveness for others from evil.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, WORDS OF SPIRITUAL BENEFIT VOL. II
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Truly God has many solutions… We think of our problems, using our human mind, which is limited. As for God He is unlimited in His knowledge and His wisdom. When matters become complicated, their complication is relative for us human beings. As for God nothing becomes complicated, everything is easy and the solutions are many. God interferes at the right time and in the suitable way. It could be a solution that never crossed our minds, one that we never thought of or expected…
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, WORDS OF SPIRITUAL BENEFIT VOL. II
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Some cannot wait for death, and some are terrified of death. This becomes a marker for which life I’m walking.
—Fr. Mina Dimitri -
The practice of virtue and contemplation on the love of God makes one face death without fear or tears knowing that death is inevitable from one side and another side frees us from all our diseases.
—St. Antony the Great
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