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A Beginner’s Guide to Spirituality: The Orthodox Path to a Deeper Relationship with God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genuine spirituality keeps us in balance with God, our neighbor, and the material world. Michael Keiser walks us through the Orthodox Church’s timeless teachings and practices on the ancient understanding of Christian spirituality with humor and keen insight. He outlines how ascetic practices, personal and corporate worship, confession and repentance, overcoming the passions, and opening...

of psychic energy in them was a revelation. (Max Oliva, SJ, Free to Pray Free to Love, Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1994, p. 125) I am certain that it was. The author then goes on to relate that he now counsels people to “Be a tree, for example. Be a tree before God: listen to it, what are you saying to God? What is God saying to you? Or be a rock, a flower, the earth, etc.” Or perhaps a fire hydrant; they have much in common with trees. The problem is that this has passed from a Christian sense
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