“To help your spiritual growth and remind you of spiritual truths, it would be good to keep a journal (the hardbound record books sold in stationery stores are good), which would include excerpts from the writings of spiritual books which you find especially valuable or applicable to you, and perhaps comments of your own inspired by reading and reflection, including brief comments on your own shortcomings which you need to correct.  St. John of Kronstadt found this especially valuable, as can be seen in his My Life in Christ.”
(Fr. Seraphim Rose in  ‘Living Orthodoxy’)

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