Sunday, August 20, 2023

St. Paisios the Athonite "How to show love"



- Geronda, how can I show love?

- Show love? I don't understand it. It's a lie and a hypocrisy. We have love in us, and that love gives us away? That's understandable. True love makes itself known to the other person without ostentation. Love means listening with compassion to another's pain. Love is a compassionate look and a word spoken to a person in a difficult moment. Love means to share his grief, to comfort him in his difficulties. Love means accepting a harsh word from him. All this is more useful than many words and ostentatious expressions.
When you have inner compassion for another person, God informs him of your disposition, your love, and he understands it without ostentation. In the same way, if anger is not expressed outwardly, but it is inside, the other person feels it. After all, the devil, when he appears in the form of an "angel of light", brings confusion, but a real Angel brings inexpressible light joy.

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