Wisdom from Elder Seraphim - All our troubles come from...

Orthodox Spirituality par excellence from an Orthodox Valaam Monk - Elder Seraphim. The way to spiritual life...
"...All he wants is to bring us to the divine life, but He can not do it without our own participation!"...¨
Elder Seraphim is an orthodox monk of the orthodox church and a disciple of Elder Sophrony, who himself is best known as the disciple and biographer of St. Silouan of Mount Athos.
Glorification is the vision of God in which the equality of all men and the absolute value of each man is experienced. God loves all men equally and indiscriminately, regardless of even their moral status. And the saint is able to love like God loves. An expression of this love, is perfect spiritual compassion, where we can experience the sorrowful cosmic unity with the whole humankind, which is expressed well by Saint Silouan the Athonite:
"He who has the Holy Spirit in him, to however slight a degree, sorrows Day and Night for all mankind. His heart is filled with pity for all God’s creatures, more especially for those who do not know God, or who resist Him and therefore are bound for torment. For them, more than for himself, he prays Day and Night, that all may repent and know the Lord."
Not even the lamentation of a widow who has lost her only son can be compared with the lamentation of these saintly ascetics. The pain of their soul becomes metaphysical, and the cry of their distress resounds in all the deserts of this world and becomes the most powerful prayer.