Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives series_Pantocrator and was taken for a

and was taken for a pious but unremarkable monk although he was adorned with the highest graces of the Holy Spirit

simplicity

So great were his gifts that hundreds of people flocked daily to his humble cabin at Optina

The present treatise

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives series_Pantocrator and was taken for aLove little things, and strive for that which is modest and simple. The Lord watches over us, and He is pleased that you long for His peace. Until the soul is ready, He will only sometimes allow us to see that He is present everywhere and fills all things. At these moments the soul feels such joy! But then the Lord conceals Himself from us again, in order that we might long for Him and seek Him with our hearts! Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Elder