Sayings of the Romanian Elders

Sayings of the Romanian Elders

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Rediscovering the culture of the heart

Rediscovering the culture of the heart

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Feb 26, 2022
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“A great elder said about contemporary man: ‘Here is his mind, and here is his heart, and in between them is a stone wall’…A man without a heart is half a man whose existence is transformed into a gradual death. Our entire contemporary civilization is afflicted by this sclerosis of the heart, therefore our entire existence is transformed into a slow death. That is why our life so much resembles death, joy more readily resembles pain, and this final age is ill with this incurable sadness - because it abandoned the culture of the heart.”

—Boris Vysheslavtsev (quote taken from Elder Sofian Boghiu’s Journal)

This is Sayings of the Romanian Elders, a newsletter about Sayings, homilies, and conferences of contemporary Romanian Elders.

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