Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Conditions

As soon as other people's goodness becomes a condition for our own goodness, we have lost all our responsibility for our own humanity.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Choice

The holy life by definition is about making a choice. The very difference between a monastic and a lay person is that a monastic makes a choice,  and that a lay person doesn't. Lay life is marked by not making choices, and thus immorality.