3 Quotes & Sayings By Paul Evdokimov

Paul Evdokimov is a psychologist, writer, and educator. He is the author of six books including Building Minds for Change, Applied Mindfulness in Psychotherapy, and The Young Driver Handbook. He has appeared on CBS News, PBS NewsHour, BBC World News, ABC Nightline, International Business Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and many other television and radio programs. Evdokimov is the founder of the International School of Psychotherapy (ISP), an accredited graduate program in psychotherapy.

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The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia. Paul Evdokimov
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The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up. . Paul Evdokimov