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If you feel that you cannot control your anger, remain silent, and for the time being, simply say nothing, until, through continuous prayer and self-reproach, your heart has become calm.<\/p>\n
During conversation with others it is no hindrance to be cautious in speech, and at the same time one can retain the Jesus Prayer in the mind.<\/p>\n
One must strive to have a good opinion of everyone. Only God is the Knower of hearts. We cannot infallibly judge people.<\/p>\n
In case of a fall of some kind in deed, word, or thought, you should immediately\u00a0repent\u00a0and, acknowledging your infirmity, humble yourself and force yourself to see your sins, but not your corrections. From exam\u00adining his sins, a person comes to humility and acquires a heart that is bro\u00adken and humble, which God does not despise.<\/p>\n
We must not attribute miracle-working power to our prayer; we must not think that what we ask of the Lord is always fulfilled. This thought comes from pride and leads to deception.<\/p>\n
God does not demand undistracted prayer from beginners. It is acquired with much time and labor, as the writings of the holy fathers say: “God grants prayer to those who pray…\u201d<\/p>\n
When having thoughts of self-praise, we must look at our sins and remember that without the help of God we can do nothing good and ben\u00adeficial, we have only sins and infirmities.<\/p>\n
Pay no attention to praise and fear it; remember what one of the holy fathers says: “If someone praises you, expect reproaches from him too.”<\/p>\n
If you reconcile your own heart towards someone who is angry at you, the Lord will tell his heart to reconcile with you.<\/p>\n
By desiring to live or die in this place, but not that one, we establish our own will, we desire to fulfill our own desires, which we must not do. Do not pray to the Lord for any such thing, but pray that His holy will may be fulfilled in us.<\/p>\n
Let us endure for a little while and we will receive eternal blessed\u00adness. Let us consign to oblivion all earthly pleasures and joys\u2014they are not for us. It has been said:\u00a0Where our treasure is, there our heart will be<\/em>\u00a0(cf. Luke 12:34), and our treasure is in heaven; therefore let us strive with all our heart for the heavenly Fatherland. There all our sorrows will be turned to joy; abuse and disparagement\u2014to glory; sorrows, tears and sighs\u2014to consolation; sicknesses and toil\u2014to everlasting peace without pain.<\/p>\n When sorrow comes to us, we must await consolations, but after the consolation, we must again await sorrows.<\/p>\n We cannot live in such a way that no one grieves or offends us, for the Apostle Luke writes:\u00a0we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God<\/em>\u00a0(Acts 14:22), and\u00a0bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ<\/em>\u00a0(Gal. 6:2). Let us therefore ask that we may bear\u00a0sorrows\u00a0with self- reproach and humility and not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good, and with the Prophet say:\u00a0With them that hate peace I was peace\u00adable<\/em>\u00a0(Ps. 119:6).<\/p>\n You are bored because you think too much about yourself and you censure those who are weak.<\/p>\n In the pure writings of the Holy Fathers, we see that he who desires to cleanse his heart of the passions must call on the Lord for help\u2014this is so. We cannot say the\u00a0Jesus Prayer\u00a0without our thoughts being plundered. With beginners, God does not demand undistract\u00aded prayer: it is acquired with much time and labor. As the writings of the Holy Fathers say: “God gives prayer to him who prays,\u201d thus we must neverthe\u00adless continue to pray, orally, and with the mind.<\/p>\n From\u00a0Living Without Hypocrisy: Spiritual Counsels of the Holy Elders of Optina, Holy Trinity Publications, 2005<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anger If you feel that you cannot control your anger, remain silent, and for the time being, simply say nothing, until, through continuous prayer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orthodox-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/\u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e-1.jpg","views":{"total":387,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1768403210},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-6Ab","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41148,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25307\/revisions\/41148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Spiritual welfare<\/h3>\n