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Someone I know, who has meant a lot to me, is suffering recently with a lot of illness and pain. On top of this, their father has recently contracted the Coronavirus and developed double pneumonia, and is currently in critical condition.

Please can you all pray for him, his name is David, and their family for their perseverance and safety. Thank you so much, and God bless.

#coronavirus #covid 19 #quarantine #orthodoxy #christianity #prayer request #prayer #pray #god #easter #pascha

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I guess I try not to add personal messages and stuff onto this blog, the most I've done before was answering some asks. I'd just like to ask people to pray for me and my old friend. I haven't felt this terrible in quite a long time honestly, and I wish I could change things but I can't. Please just pray for us.

#prayer #prayer request

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

#Virginia Woolf #Night and Day #Quotes #British Lit #British Literature #Love #Not orthodox #not gothic

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I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?

Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

#Tolstoy #Quotes #Love #Family Happiness #Short Stories #Russian Lit #Leo Tolstoy

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"Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better. They respect one another more, and much is built on respect. And if once there has been love, if they have been married for love, why should love pass away? Surely one can keep it! It is rare that one cannot keep it."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letters from the Underworld

#fyodor dostoyevsky #notes from underground #letters from the underworld #russian lit #russian #love #mystery #dostoyevsky

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“Suffering – why, this is the sole cause of consciousness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via notesfromtheundergroundman)

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Wait are you a nazi

no im an Orthodox Christian

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What is the most thought-provoking novel you've read? 👀🖤

I could really go on like a 15-book tangent here and tell why each mattered a lot to me, and I really should be reading more as is, but I think my favorite book by far, and the one that was the most impactful on myself and provoked a lot of thoughts would be the novel “Growth of the Soil” by Knut Hamsun.  It helped me understand the relationship more intimately between man and nature, man and man, and ultimately man and God. It helped me understand freedom, which is freedom to (more broadly understood by Nietzsche, Dugin, etc) rather than freedom *from* which is just a mockery of the idea of freedom (it subordinates your will to that of your id, you are no longer judged for your problems/mistakes/etc and you are free to keep lowering yourself down to animal level). Loneliness, even when he was with his wife and children, was a primary component, but also so was contentedness. One must be able to master being content with life, or else you are always on the chase for some new high, and you will also be destroyed by the excessive low it’ll bring shortly after. Also, it made me much more interested in wanting to live away from technology (ironic as I type this on a computer, and check it later on my phone) to some degree, as it can easily contribute to self-destruction.  I think I did an okay job of explaining ideas from the book without also spoiling anything if you choose to read it ever. 

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do you have any phobias?

Oops, didn't even mean to enable ask but I'll answer this. Ever since young I've been relatively spooked by slugs, snails, those types of things. Molluscophobia is the proper term, iirc. Beyond that, I have a slight fear of heights and what seems to be termed "monatophobia". The latter must be reconciled should I ever heed a calling to the priesthood.

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May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights (via notesfromtheundergroundman)

#Dostoyevsky #quotes #non orthodox related #mood #non gothic #lonely #loneliness

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Blessed feast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary (commemorated Aug. 28/15)

Painting of Chubakov Anton Vyacheslavovich

#Orthodoxy #Orthodox Christianity #Orthodox #Icons #Painting #Chubakov #Theotokos #non gothic

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#orthodoxy #orthodox christianity #orthodox #christianity #monk #antichrist #satan #quotes #faith

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#IRA #Ireland #Balaclava #Aesthetic #non orthodox related

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I am a dreamer. I know so little about real life. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights (1848)

#Dostoyevsky #White Nights #Short Stories #Non Orthodox related

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#Chechnya #Chechen #Grozny #Russia #Wasteland #90s #Military #Aesthetic #Christianity #Despair #Despondency #Despondent #Despondence #depression

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and the same to the Most Holy Theotokos.

#christianity #aesthetics #orthodox christianity #orthodoxy #orthodox #beekeeping #bees #honeycomb #icons #theotokos #virgin mary #mary #mother of god #non gothic

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Bees honour the Lord Jesus Christ.

#mt athos #holy #holy mountain #bees #orthodox #orthodox christianity #orthodoxy #christianity #beekeeping #honeycomb #non gothic