1. "Go sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everything."
What will a half hours silence in our private space teach us that our information saturated world will not? "Everything."
2. "Many people living the secluded life have died like worldly people. It is better to live in the world and long for solitude than to live in solitude and long for the world."
Yeats said, he could feel the hermits solitude in the city streets because he heard it "in the deep hearts core."
3. "Never stay in a well-known place nor sit with a famous person nor lay foundation for building a cell someday."
Never approach projects with a lackadaisical "someday" attitude.
The superficial soul craving status by association is likely to be the one who starts projects but fails to finish.
4. "To prepare for tomorrow means to cut away the fruit of the spirity and dry oneself up."
If you want true security, allow yourself the freedom of the sky.
5. " Never be sated with bread, and never run out of wine."
stay hungry but happy.
6. "Teach your heart to follow what your tongue tells others."
A pure heart is undivided and unpolluted by everything external.
7. "Just as smoke drives out bees and takes their honey away from them,
so a life of ease drives God from our souls and cancels out our good deeds."
Our ease can enslave us.
8. " Never judge a fornicator. The person who said not to fornicate also said not to judge."
This wisdom is about hypocrisy and is universal.
9. Serapion sold his gospel and gave the moeny to the hungry.
When asked why, he said he had sold the book that told him to feed the hungry.
10. "The hen who stops sitting on eggs will hatch no chicks; you, too should stay where you are."
Situations need to be tended, not necessarily abandoned, in order to draw out the lesson or the reward.
What will a half hours silence in our private space teach us that our information saturated world will not? "Everything."
2. "Many people living the secluded life have died like worldly people. It is better to live in the world and long for solitude than to live in solitude and long for the world."
Yeats said, he could feel the hermits solitude in the city streets because he heard it "in the deep hearts core."
3. "Never stay in a well-known place nor sit with a famous person nor lay foundation for building a cell someday."
Never approach projects with a lackadaisical "someday" attitude.
The superficial soul craving status by association is likely to be the one who starts projects but fails to finish.
4. "To prepare for tomorrow means to cut away the fruit of the spirity and dry oneself up."
If you want true security, allow yourself the freedom of the sky.
5. " Never be sated with bread, and never run out of wine."
stay hungry but happy.
6. "Teach your heart to follow what your tongue tells others."
A pure heart is undivided and unpolluted by everything external.
7. "Just as smoke drives out bees and takes their honey away from them,
so a life of ease drives God from our souls and cancels out our good deeds."
Our ease can enslave us.
8. " Never judge a fornicator. The person who said not to fornicate also said not to judge."
This wisdom is about hypocrisy and is universal.
9. Serapion sold his gospel and gave the moeny to the hungry.
When asked why, he said he had sold the book that told him to feed the hungry.
10. "The hen who stops sitting on eggs will hatch no chicks; you, too should stay where you are."
Situations need to be tended, not necessarily abandoned, in order to draw out the lesson or the reward.
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