8 May 2025
You cannot cure the soul of others or ‘help people,’ without having
changed yourself. You cannot put in order the spiritual economy of others, so
long as there is chaos in your own soul. You cannot bring peace to others if
you do not have it yourself. Often, we help other people, not by a series of
conscious acts directed upon their soul, but rather by influencing them through
our spiritual gifts, without ourselves seeing or knowing how we do so. Once
(St.) Anthony the Great asked a visitor who said nothing at all, ‘Why do you
not ask me anything?’ and the other answered, ‘It is enough for me to look at
you, holy father’.
Alexander Elchaninov
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