Orthodox Spirituality

http://incommunion.org/articles/conferences-lectures/the-passions-enemy-or-friend
This is how they make you a bishop...! The eloquence of this man is patent, and his argument, invaluable. We are to be transfigured, and transfiguring is the death of our old man and his passions.
The importance of this insight is immense. As Kallistos comments, though we are as meek as oysters, even oysters have enemies. It is permissible for a Christian, for example, to hate (let the reader properly understand - we are not to hate as the Gentiles hate). We must keep our passions, without letting them destroy us, and (in secularese) channel them into something higher. That something higher is not some vague psychobabble, as it would be coming from the mouth of Sigmund Freud in his Viennese Biedermeier sitting room (as he wondered what the poltegeistian clapping sound from his bookshelf was, debating with Jung over whether it was a spiritual experience or not!), but is to be specifically understood as an entering into the life of Christ, the inside of the Trinity, the inner life of God.
Until I read Thomas Merton, I didn't understand that God had an inner life. Just like a real person. God is love, God is free, God is liberty. God is a person.