Beginning with Ourselves

Our starting point is always wrong. Instead of beginning with ourselves, we always wanted to change others first and ourselves last.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

According to the second commandment, Love thy neighbour as thyself, each of us must and can comprise all mankind in his own personal being. Thus we shall accept all the evil in the world not as something extraneous but as evil in which we too have our part, and contend with evil, with cosmic evil, beginning in our own selves.

 

Sophrony of Essex