This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself on a… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
