Wisdom from Elder Seraphim - All our troubles come from...

Orthodox Spirituality par excellence from an Orthodox Valaam Monk - Elder Seraphim. The way to spiritual life... “...All he wants is to bring us to the divine life, but He can not do it without our own participation!“...¨ Elder Seraphim is an orthodox monk of the orthodox church and a disciple of Elder Sophrony, who himself is best known as the disciple and biographer of St. Silouan of Mount Athos. Glorification is the vision of God in which the equality of all men and the absolute value of each man is experienced. God loves all men equally and indiscriminately, regardless of even their moral status. And the saint is able to love like God loves. An expression of this love, is perfect spiritual compassion, where we can experience the sorrowful cosmic unity with the whole humankind, which is expressed well by Saint Silouan the Athonite: “He who has the Holy Spirit in him, to however slight a degree, sorrows Day and Night for all mankind. His heart is filled wi