David Given Schwarm

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Tag: Prayer

  • St. Callistus Xanthopoulos

    Prove your love and zeal for wisdom in actual deeds.

  • 15. Exhibiting Skill

    The wise are skillful
    in their acquaintance with the profound.

    They are watchful
    like one who crosses a swollen river.
    They are alert, like one aware of danger.
    They are considerate, like one who travels.

    The wise are yielding,
    like snow beneath the sun;
    naked, like newly felled timer;
    hollow, like the valley;
    ovscure, like muddy water.

    May not one take muddy water
    and make it clear by keeping still?

  • Take Time

    1. Take time
    2. Be neat
    3. Listen
    4. Do unto others
    5. The truth is out there, the story is within

  • Take Life Seriously

    1. Take life seriously
    2. Don’t take yourself to seriously
    3. Communicate
    4. Take time to be on time
    5. Make sure I am awake

  • Be Present

    1. Be Present
    2. Don’t judge others
    3. Always know the truth between right and wrong
    4. Intuition & impulse
    5. All things are related

  • 50. Evidence of Simplicity

    Words of truth are not always beautiful.
    Beautiful words are not always true.
    The way of Tao does not argue.
    Those who argue are not skilled in Tao.

    Those who know are not learned.
    The learned do not know.

    The wise do not keep anything.
    Giving to others is joy.
    Doing for others is happiness.

    This is the Tao of Heaven,
    which gives with endless abandon.
    This is the Tao of the Sage,
    whose happiness is eternal.

  • St. Clement of Rome


    Let us consider, then, brethren, of what matter we were formed,
    who we are, and with what nature we came into the world, and how
    He Who formed and created us brought us into His world from the
    darkness of a grave, and prepared his benefits for us before we
    were born. Since, therefore, we have everything from Him, we ought
    in everything to give Him thanks, to Whom be glory for ever and
    ever. Amen.

  • St. Hesychius the Presbyter


    We should zealously cultivate watchfulness, my brethren; and when,
    our mind purified in Christ Jesus, we are exalted by the vision it
    confers, we should review our sins and our former life, so that
    shattered and humbled at the thought of them we may never lose the
    help of Jesus Christ our God in the invisible battle.

  • Three of Swords–Sorrow


    This is the happiness of the Buddha at enlightenment–the sorrow without form or reason. I am really not sure what this means, but it sounds fairly positive.

    “Disruptions, interruption, separation, quarreling; sowing of discord and strife, mischief-making, sorrow and tears; yet mirth in Platonic pleasures; singing, faithfulness in promises, honesty in money transactions, selfish and dissipated, yet sometimes generous: deceitful in words and repetitions; the whole according to dignity”.

    which is from the divination portion…Some sense of disruption and the tide is going to start changing in my favor.

  • 27. Humility

    Mighty Tao is all-pervading.
    It is simultaneously on this side
    and on that.
    All living things come from it,
    and all are its care.
    It works, it finishes,
    and knows not the name of merit.
    In love it nurtures al things,
    and claims no excellence therin.
    It knows neither ambition nor desire.
    It can be classed with the humblest of things,
    for all things finally revert to it,
    and are not thereby increased.
    Tao can be mentioned with
    the greatest of things.
    And the Sage
    understands humility in this.