Yesterday night, January 27 at 7 PM we had the extraordinary opportunity to host a special session of Gladsome Light Dialogues having as guest Archmandrite Meletios, the Abbot of St. John of St. Francisco Monastery in California.
Archimandrite Meletios (Webber), of Scottish background, was born in London, and received his Masters degree in Theology from [...]
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Being Present in the Presence – Archmandrite Meletios (Webber)
January 29th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: heart · Meletios · mind · nous · orthodox · presence · rayer · steps · Weber
Silence of the minds
September 11th, 2009 No Comments
I always liked this dialogue from the movie Pulp Fiction (slightly adapted for language):
“Don’t you hate that?”
“Hate what?”
“Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about nonsense? In order to be comfortable?”
“I don’t know. That’s a good question.”
“That’s when you know you found somebody really special, when you can just shut […] up for a minute. Comfortably share silence.”
Tags: heart · mind · nous · prayer · silence · uncomfortable
