Category: KNOWLEDGE & SELF-KNOWLEDGE

  • No one should be burdened with the “failure” label just for playing their hand in the grand game of life. It’s undeniable that some people have the fortune to start with a strong hand, graced with physical beauty, social grace, or remarkable talents. Or, perhaps, they simply emerged from the right door, under the right star.

    Bimbo Ubermensch
    The Ocean

  • We all have value. 

    We all contribute. We all give back—if not through paid work, then as part of the human ecosystem. 

    “All Parasites Have Value:” Why Valuing Those Who Don’t Work is Key to More Sustainable Work Practices for Those Who Do

  • However, I know that it is not because of your strength, your long hours of studying, or your own understanding that you passed this milestone, but it was through God’s great strength and blessings that you succeeded. Do you also believe this?

    —Fr. Mina the Hermit (Pope Kyrillos VI) to his nephew Hegumen Philemon Labib

    via Pope Kyrillos: The Patron and Beloved of the Children, Fr. Rafael Ava Mina

  • Perfect Days (2023)

  • I fell silent, with a sense of satiety, of futility. I might, I reflected, go on questioning my mother for hours and still not come to a conclusion about anything: her life, and she herself, had by now attained a degree of utter meaninglessness which amounted, in the long run, to a sort of mystery at the same time both dull and impenetrable.

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia

  • I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything.

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • The person who really knows what’s going on, a lot of times, you find him more reserved.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • Some call men intelligent because they have the power of discernment on the sensible plane. But the really intelligent people are those who control their own desires.

    —St Mark the Ascetic

  • …and he changed them all. By what means? By means of the earnest. How was he sufficient for these things?

    By the grace of the Spirit. Unskilled, ill-clothed, ill-shod he was upheld by Him Who also has given the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore he says, “And who is sufficient for these things?” (2 Cor. 2:16). “But our sufficiency is of God, who has made us sufficient as ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter but of the Spirit” (2 Cor. 3:5-6).

    —Saint John Chrysostom, On the Vanity of Riches
    HOMILY Two
    After Eutropios, having been found outside the church, was taken captive

  • “The ineloquent man was wiser than the wise.”

    —Saint John Chrysostom, On the Vanity of Riches
    HOMILY Two
    After Eutropios, having been found outside the church, was taken captive