Hesychasm Breathing Quotes & Sayings

When I fly to European destinations, I always fly economy; I don't fly business class - there is no advantage apart from a few more inches of room. — Peter Hargreaves

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. — Nancy Gibbs

Syntheses between East and West based simply on a similarity of "spiritualities" or "mystical experiences" could not be achieved even then - how much less so today! So we must judge any program as inadequate that tries simply to let India and Europe encounter each other at the halfway-station of Byzantine hesychasm, in the practice of the Jesus prayer and of certain bodily positions and breathing exercises - all ways in which Eastern Christianity reorientalized itself after the period of the great synthesis. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

It sounds stupid, but being angry all the time is making me angry. — Ron Currie Jr.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often. — Robin McKinley

There is nothing humble about this woman. — Libbie Hawker