What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?
Avoid people, focus on Jesus.
Category: Personal
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What are your future travel plans?
I have absolutely no travel plans but I do have plans to read more. I like “where” I am at the moment. Yet there is always another book to read and a new author to explore.
absolutely …
…a cat person. I have nothing against dogs – maybe a Great Dane – but I am simply a cat person.
expectations
What bothers you and why?
I suffer under the weight of my expectations.
nothing
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.
- “Objective uncertainty “
- …
Rule
Sit in your cell as in paradise.
Put the whole world behind you and forget it.
Watch your thoughts like a good fisherman watching for fish,
The path you must follow is in the Psalms — never leave it.
If you have just come to the monastery,
and in spite of your good will you cannot accomplish what you want,
take every opportunity you can to sing the Psalms in your heart
and to understand them with your mind.
And if your mind wanders as you read, do not give up;
hurry back and apply your mind to the words once more.
Realize above all that you are in God’s presence,
and stand there with the attitude of one who stands
before the emperor.
Empty yourself completely and sit waiting,
content with the grace of God,
like the chick who tastes nothing and eats nothing
but what his mother brings him
live
Wake early (before sunrise), drink coffee, think, eat, go to sleep.
I don’t
How do you practice self-care?
To be honest, I do not. I allow the battle inside me to simply rage. I sometimes sleep which means I have some time to not feel the pain. But otherwise …
not what you think
How do you waste the most time every day?
I would like to say that I pray and think holy thoughts! But most of the day I am doom scrolling or falling down a rabbit hole and feeling sorry for myself.
only one?
Who is your favorite historical figure?
Only one?! I have different people for different “moods” – philosophy, theology, “weirdo”. Here are a few:
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Fredrick Nietzsche
- Franz Kafka
- Albert Camus
- Jesus of Nazareth
this solitary life 