289 - My Most Anti-Symbolic Talk - The Quest For A Spiritual Home Conference
The Symbolic World
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The Secret Joke Behind Fasting
The idea is not to fast so that you have more pleasure, he says. The Orthodox tradition presents the spiritual life in a way that's actually how the whole spiritual life is presented. "I often bewilder people when I tell them that if you read the writings of the monks and the ascetics, they tell you to not care for any spiritual experience"
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