I'm up late folding laundry and watching "Secrets of the Jesus Prayer" on WHUT (Howard University Television). Earlier I checked in on my 'stats' and definitely saw zero views today. Now however there have been 13. Possibly because I have so many 'hits' from China and the Ukraine? ? Interesting.
I have read the Philokalia * and The Way of A Pilgrim (The Way of a Pilgrim several times). It's a good read. My favorite part of this program for television was the speech of a blind monastic guy named Theophile (lover of God). I will paraphrase for now: The Jesus prayer links the mind and the heart. The linking of the mind and the heart is the work of God. I like this particularly because, in my effort to understand the way my own mind works I have come to realize that for me the progress is always from affect to cognition. I love/respond first and then I understand. Sometimes much, much later.
* (I read something I thought was the Philokalia but when I just looked it up on Amazon to create the link it's like 1600 pages and that I did not read.)
I have read the Philokalia * and The Way of A Pilgrim (The Way of a Pilgrim several times). It's a good read. My favorite part of this program for television was the speech of a blind monastic guy named Theophile (lover of God). I will paraphrase for now: The Jesus prayer links the mind and the heart. The linking of the mind and the heart is the work of God. I like this particularly because, in my effort to understand the way my own mind works I have come to realize that for me the progress is always from affect to cognition. I love/respond first and then I understand. Sometimes much, much later.
* (I read something I thought was the Philokalia but when I just looked it up on Amazon to create the link it's like 1600 pages and that I did not read.)
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