Image via Wikipedia Through a lifestyle of repentance, the passions calm so that the temporary pleasures of the body lose their luster compared to the pleasure of union with the One who bestows every good and perfect thing upon us. Dn Symeon Dana Keyes Orthodox Christian Healthcare
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The function of reason is to know nature and to enable us to live in harmony with it. It cannot conquer nature as long as we are in the natural world. Perhaps things are different in the supernatural realm. I thought of this while contemplating the poet Homer and the way literary theorists have often
