"Any
purely logical thinking is frightening; it is without life, without
fruit. A rational and logical person is hardly able to repent....
The essential error of the modern man is to identify life with activism, with thought, etc., hence an almost complete inability simply to 'live', i.e., to feel, to appreciate, to live life as a continuous gift. To walk to the train station in a light that feels like spring, in the rain, to be able to see, to sense, to be conscious of a morning ray of sun on the wall--all of these are the reality of life. They are not conditions for activism or for thought, they are not just an indifferent background, they are the reason one acts and thinks. Only in that reality of life does God reveal Himself, and not in acts and thoughts.... The same is true of communication. One does not communicate through talks and debates. The deeper and more joyful the communication, the less it depends on words. On the contrary, one is almost afraid of words because they might destroy the communion, cut off the joy." - Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Journals
The essential error of the modern man is to identify life with activism, with thought, etc., hence an almost complete inability simply to 'live', i.e., to feel, to appreciate, to live life as a continuous gift. To walk to the train station in a light that feels like spring, in the rain, to be able to see, to sense, to be conscious of a morning ray of sun on the wall--all of these are the reality of life. They are not conditions for activism or for thought, they are not just an indifferent background, they are the reason one acts and thinks. Only in that reality of life does God reveal Himself, and not in acts and thoughts.... The same is true of communication. One does not communicate through talks and debates. The deeper and more joyful the communication, the less it depends on words. On the contrary, one is almost afraid of words because they might destroy the communion, cut off the joy." - Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Journals
"To educate man is the art of arts, for he is the most complex and mysterious of all creatures." - St. Gregory the Theologian
"Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life." – Charlotte Mason
