• “Three things the mind is enlightened with: doing good to those who wrong you, enduring what befalls you from your enemies, and abandoning looking at and envying those who are ahead of you in the world.“

    —Abba Arsenius
    Abba Arsenius – The Tutor of the Emperor’s Sons

  • When the blessed Arsenius was about to deliver his spirit the brethren saw him weeping, and they said unto him, “Are you also afraid, O father?” And he said unto them, “The dread of this hour has been with me in very truth from the time when I became a monk, and was afraid.” And so he died.

    Abba Arsenius – The Tutor of the Emperor’s Sons

  • When Abba Poemen heard of his repose, he said:
    Blessed are you, O Abba Arsenius, for you wept over yourself in this world. For he who does not weep for himself in this world must weep for ever in the next. He may weep here voluntarily, or there because of the punishments [which he will receive], but it is impossible for a man to escape weeping either here or there.

    Abba Arsenius – The Tutor of the Emperor’s Sons

  • The saint sees that one hour of sleep per day is sufficient for a monk. While many people see that a person must sleep for eight hours per day, some specialists and those who have experience assert that the body, through habit, may be satisfied with less than that, without any effect on the productivity of the person, just like the stomach which gets used to being small or large in size.

    Abba Arsenius – The Tutor of the Emperor’s Sons

  • If people don’t either love or hate your work, you just haven’t done all that much.

    —Tinker Hatfield

  • The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

    —René Descartes

  • Clinging is a product of a scarcity mindset. It’s a belief that joy is limited, that there’s very little of it to go around, and that you never know when, or if, you’ll get more of it. Savoring, on the other hand, is the manifestation of an abundance mindset. Savoring acknowledges that joy is fleeting, but seeks to capture as much of it as possible, while trusting that joy will come back again.

    ARE YOU CLINGING OR SAVORING?
    by Ingrid Fetell Lee

  • Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

    —Emil Cioran

  • It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

    —Sylvia Plath

  • Living doesn’t cost much, but showing off does.

    —Jeffrey D. Sachs