/lit/ - Literature

all philosophy is philosophied by no pussy gettin niggas. used to be based volcels, then it was ugly ass incel niggas, but the ugly ass incel niggas was just coping and they ruined society cause they didn't get they dicks wet.

>>11880084
Don't refer to Natalia as a THOT.

Orthodox literature

A thread to discuss authors like Dostoevsky and Vodolazkin, and works like the Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim

Quotes welcome

>He whose will and desire in conversation is to establish his own opinion, even though what he says is true, should recognize that he is sick with the devil’s disease. And if he behaves like this only in conversation with his equals, then perhaps the rebuke of his superiors may heal him. But if he acts in this way even with those who are greater and wiser than he, then his malady is humanly incurable.
-The Ladder of Divine Ascent

>Mercy and justice in one soul is like a man who worships God and the idols in one house. Mercy is opposed to justice. Justice is the equality of the even scale, for it gives to each as he deserves; and when it makes recompense, it does not incline to one side or show respect of persons. Mercy, on the other hand, is a sorrow and pity stirred up by goodness, and it compassionately inclines a man in the direction of all; it does not requite a man who is deserving of evil, and to him who is deserving of good it gives a double portion. If, therefore, it is evident that mercy belongs to the portion of righteousness, then justice belongs to the portion of wickedness. As grass and fire cannot coexist in one place, so justice and mercy cannot abide in one soul. As a grain of sand cannot counterbalance a great quantity of gold, so in comparison God’s use of justice cannot counterbalance His mercy.
-The Ascetic Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian

Orthodox hymns
Aramaic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJP-4JzMhQ
Greek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1FzSC8DBs
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc91xrGtaKo
Serbian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUCF4ZXpIuU
Bulgarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wm4RlnnaOU
French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI92g8JWwn8
Arabic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8r5r4R2yuE
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjtgV6OPBM
German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYq1BqHURs
Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS1uf0oQCg4
Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAgrCuKwPc
Romanian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-rgQve74BI