Dionysios Farasiotis
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The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
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2002
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8 editions
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Marii Initiati Ai Indiei Si Parintele Paisie
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“Modern man wants everything to fit within his own perspective and resents being awakened from his blissful stupor. This is why he mocks, slanders, distorts, attacks, rejects, and hates whatever lies beyond his own worldview. He does not want to think, because television has taught him to hate thinking. He does not want to ask himself questions, because it is too tiring to do so. He doesn’t want to struggle to go beneath life’s superficiality, because modern culture has made him comfortable as he lives the pampered life of a hungry consumer in a cage of materialism. In”
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
“Because He loved me, He allowed me to approach Him, and He purified me and healed me, thoroughly and deeply, of all my pains and sores. He drew me gently, steadily, and safely from darkness to light, from filth to purity, from non-being into being. He granted me a more intense, true, and vital existence, not because He had need of me, but because He is Love. I”
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
“At a certain point, I noticed an enormous discrepancy between the image I had formed in my mind about Christians and Christian life and what I saw and experienced there. I had always thought that Christians were narrow-minded, devious wretches with psychological problems. I had thought the Christian Faith and the Church were dead, and I had always viewed the Christian tradition as a relic of the past, used by charlatans, swindlers, and other lowlifes.”
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
― The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios
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