malibumark

i think i am seeing that I have physical and emotional needs or maybe seeingthe nature of them. I'm understanding them with a sense of perspective.I can sort through things in life to understand my...

hi guys - I didn't have to serve liturgy today,so I slept in for the second day in a row. Joy!yesterday was a good day and I found myself awake to some things.I was sitting here in my room, with...

I woke up feeling frozen in beauty but then I remembered the wisdom ‘what do I need to get done today?’ That remembrance set me on my way.It was a wisdom that set me on the path of constructive...

I was given the opportunity to go to another monastery in Greece for a visit to compare the life there from the life here. I know it is a GREAT opportunity to be invited to this iconic place. I...

it's weird but i get so conflicted inside when I don't seem to have an answerfor what to do with myself. I think in terms of controlling or guiding myselfwell with ideas that I feel like everyone has...

Perhaps people live hereBecause they have such wounds and damage from life that a quiet, contemplative and routine life carries them through life in the most comfortable best way possible?How...

It’s wild, everyone here has quite a life story to tell. There’s a 23 year old Iranian man who walked from Iran to Turkey and the from Turkey to Greece. He became the first Iranian ordained an...

Note to self:i really don't like the way im living. Time to clean and organize my room.

 I don't remember if I wrote about this completely, but I don't thinkI wrote about this expressing everything I thought about it.I realized yesterday, it's both important to let go of...

I realize stuff happens in my life, that I bitch and moan about each day. It's maybe like a pattern of 'journey to happiness and then a to fall from grace', persevering forward and then there's steam...

I wrote a budget yesterday for myself - in it I considered all expenses I have ..from soup to nutsevery responsibility and indulgence and it felt great to do it! It made me mindful to take careof...

Such amazing tough lessons.i realized this morning that it is a saving grace that i am around a tight community. My mind, while serving this morning, went to a very paranoid vicious place , but...

the resignation today, which I mentioned in the last couple of journals,made me feel like my illness is just somethingi carry with me - and in fact it's like a person - but in fact what it's...