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🔆 Saint Symeon the New Theologian, speaking about the knowledge of God, offers a beautiful image: a person stands on the shore and gazes upon a huge, boundless ocean, so great that he cannot encompass it with his sight. But still he sees something: he sees the surface of the water, the infinity merging with the horizon. Such is man’s knowledge of God when he has not yet united with Him. Man stands and in reverent awe contemplates the greatness of God, His all-infinite perfec

Luke 7:36–50 (NKJV) Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragra

🔆 ‘ Love all of God’s creation , says Elder Zosima in Dostoyevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov”: Love all of God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God. Love animals, love plants, love every thing. If you love every thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in things. This “mystery of God” of which Elder Zosima speaks is nothing other than interdependence, the inseparable interconnectedness of all creation in God the Creato