• Drink where the horse drinks: The horse never drinks bad water.

• Fit the bed where the cat sneaks in.

• Eat fruit touched by the worm.

• Feel free to pick the mushrooms the fly is on.

• Plant a tree where the mole digs.

• Build the house where the snake heats.

• Dig a well where birds nest when it’s hot.

• Get up and lie down with the hens – you’ll have the golden grain of the day.

• Eat more green, and you will have strong legs and a strong heart, like a beast.

• Swim more often, and you’ll feel like a fish in the water.

• Look to the sky more often than under your feet – and your thoughts will be clear and light.

• Be more silent than talkative – Silence will settle in your Spirit, and your Spirit will be peaceful.

• Remove sin and disease will be removed because they are given to us because of sins.

• Who overcomes illness with patience and gratitude? By doing so, she changes place with a feat or even more.

• On bread and water, no one has complained yet.

• One can take communion on earth and remain as without communion in Heaven.

• Buy a broom to sweep the cell more often because as your cell is cleansed, so will your soul be cleansed.

• There is no worse sin, and there is nothing more terrible and more pernicious than the  spirit of sadness.

• One should move away from the sorrow and make sure that one has a joyful spirit, not a sad one.

• From joy, one can do whatever one wants to do, from inner tension nothing.

• True faith can not be without good deeds: whoever truly believes surely does good deeds

• .If a man knew what the Lord had prepared for him in the Kingdom of Heaven, he would be ready to spend his whole life in a worm pit.

• More fasting and prayer is obedience. It is effort.

• Peace can subjugate the whole world.

• The abbot (and even more the bishop) should have not only a paternal but also a maternal heart.

• The world lies in evil. We need to know it, remember it, and go beyond away from it as far as possible.

• Thousands of people live with you in the world, but reveal your secret to one in thousands.

• If the family is destroyed, then the country will collapse, and the people will be perverted.

As an iron is to smith, so did I surrender myself and my will to the Lord God: as it pleases him; I do not have my will, and what pleases God, I also convey.

St. Seraphim of Sarov.