Ineffable Stillness
Wisdom is ineffable in the openness of stillness. Oneness of God’s presence abides in silence. Stillness infuses solitude with wise ineffability. Saint Thomas Sunday
Category Archives: Wisdom of Stillness
Stillness
Stillness abides in uncreated light, revealing glory to wisdom, knowing God as God knows God, transcending worldly knowledge. Stillness awakens the inmost heart where God dwells, revealing glory to wisdom, uniting awareness with presence through the Holy Name of God. Hesychast tradition bears witness to the divine presence, partaking in the timeless life of heaven, which is God’s eternal life in heavenly… Read more »
Mystery of Glory
The mystery of glory is revealed by wisdom but hidden from ambitious scrutiny which seeks to puff up pride. When wisdom is awakened, pride is humbled, because vainglory subjects glory to vanity instead of restoring glory to God. Hell is what happens to heaven when pride rides roughshod over wisdom, preferring arbitrary opinion to wise discernment. That is why self-condemnation to… Read more »
Heart of Awareness
Orthodox Hesychasm centres in the heart with vigilant awareness, revealing flawless purity of heart in uncreated light, image and likeness of the radiant beauty of translucent glory. The uncreated clarity of compassionate wisdom severs the passions from their addictive clinging, transplanting them in God as passionate love of God, practicing wisdom with the directness of pure awareness. Quintessentially, the heart… Read more »
Recognition and Remembrance
The remembrance of God cannot stabilise until recognition of God awakens the heart, uniting awareness and energy in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit breathes life into the heart with uncreated energy, purifying the heart with uncreated light. Stillness lives from purity of heart, giving new life to Hesychast tradition, renewing it with the wisdom and glory of the Name, restoring remembrance with recognition…. Read more »
Axis of Turning
The axis of pure turning is the heart in which everything turns round at centre, everything is decisively immersed in uncreated light, revealing deifying glory. When the heart turns, heaven turns, earth into heaven, heaven into earth, revealing glory at centre through wisdom. Active and receptive energies conjoin in the heart, dissolving delusion, undoing division. Dispersing doubt, clarifying confusion, fear’s reign of… Read more »
Decisive Attention
Turning the light of attention round is decisive, because the living waters of uncreated light baptise awareness when it recognises the uncreated energy of glory, awakening enlightening energy that unites the mind with the heart. Attention is always decisive, because it unites active wisdom with receptive glory, awakening uncreated creativity in the cave of the heart. Attention turns the mind around so that… Read more »
Mother Wisdom: A Prayer
O Thou That Art, revealing ‘I AM’ through ‘I AM,’ be Thou my delight, Mother Wisdom, through the grace of Thy Glory! Thou art my life, light of my heart, love of my life! Open my heart to Thee, my Bride, my Beloved! May nothing separate me from thee, here in God’s Holy Presence, here in His vision of Thee, Mother… Read more »
Saint Sophrony the Hesychast
Saint Sophrony is called ‘the Hesychast’ because he bore witness to the uncreated light of glory shining at the heart of Orthodox Hesychast wisdom. He is called ‘the Athonite’ because he spent about twenty years as a monk on Mount Athos and ‘Saint Sophrony of Essex’ because he lived the last thirty-five years of his life in his monastery in… Read more »
Reversing the Adversary
The Holy Spirit reverses the inversions of the adversary, restoring the glory of wisdom to God. The Holy Trinity replenishes hearts with uncreated light that cures adversities caused by the adversary, overcoming the resistant antitheses of the antichrist. The Thrice-Holy Name imparts saving grace to sinners, transforming them into saints, redeeming time with timeless glory. The hallowing Name floods the… Read more »