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Tito Colliander

Tito Fritiof Colliander (February 10, 1904 – May 21, 1989) was a Finnish Eastern Orthodox Christian writer.

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It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

Asceticism, Coerce, Ends, Heart, Human

This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

Cause, Effort, Given, Giving, Happiness, Soul

Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.

Asceticism, Dorotheus, Person, Practice, Wish

Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

Deciding, Envy, Heavy, Hold, Pride, Roots

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

Action, Asceticism, Faith, Pondering

Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this is a matter between God and you, and only between you two.

Asceticism, Experiences, Experiment, God, New Life, Two

It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

Anguish, Disappointment, Lack, Precisely, Self, Soul And Body

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.

Demand, Instinct, Love, Love Is, Satisfaction

As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself on a judgment seat and thereby judged yourself. You have robbed yourself of what you had won by your own continence; you have taken one step forward but ten backward: and then you have reason to weep over your obstinacy, your failure to improve, and your pride.

Continence, Judged, Men, Pride, Taken

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

Asceticism, Down, Earthly, Entangled, May, Too Late

A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to study, to work, to rest, eat, or do a service to my fellowman- can some external circumstance "get in the way," and then I am grieved.

Act, Asceticism, Obstructed, Unselfish Acts, Way, Wish

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

Secret, Saint, Asceticism, Freedom, Seek

If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.

Evil, Full, Observe, Reality, Self

Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this is how your trust grows in the Lord whom you have chosen to follow.

Accidentally, Asceticism, Lord, Nothing, Trust, Way