I discovered the Were-Doctors /  by Mirena Rhee

In a small town in a small country trying to find adequate healthcare for my mom. My mom feels better in her hometown rather than Sofia where the best doctors are, I understand that she rather be in her own house. They want a piece of me.

I'm obsessed with the Russian Elders or Startsi /  by Mirena Rhee

Couple of years ago I reconnected with a high school friend of mine who had become a monk on Atos. He scolded me for praying at a Catholic Church. I loved going to St Patrick's cathedral on 5th avenue.

We had many long hours of conversations where he talked to me and I talked to him. I ended up going back to the Eastern Orthodox Church and specifically to the St Nicholas cathedral on the Upper East Side. I totally ignored the fact that it is a Putin church. Coming out of it on Sundays I imagined CIA's sculking around the corners.

Anyway one of the books that led me on that path was Everyday Saints and Other Stories by Archimandrite Tikhon.

I've always been drawn to Zen and minimalism and the ascetic tradition of the Russian elders completed the circle.

So to complete the square of thoughts, I always connect these three vertices to the great scientists of the West especially modern physicists who try to slice the universe each and every way to find its meaning.

I believe that Central to the meaning of the universe is the human being and our realization of the spirit of love. I believe everything the saints have been saying is exactly the same thing physicists are saying, we are definitely more than meets the eye and most likely we're just all one thing, we just appear separate blobs. So whenever we do evil to the other blob we do evil to ourselves.