Book: Elder Leonid of Optina

Do you have this book?

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https://www.sainthermanmonastery.com/product-p/leo.htm

 I'm hoping to compare the 2002 edition with my 1990 edition.  The front covers are different.  The 1990 is a yellow on brown  the 2002 edition is an ultra-pastel salmon on blue.  

Advertizers online will use stock photos of book covers for their ads, indiscriminately, so don't be misled.  Both editions contain 272 pages, so you need to check the year.  Even then, checking further, be careful again.   Some sellers, including my favorite seller (Thrift Books)* will use the original year in their ad regardless of what picture they use.

If, after we can do a comparison, if it turns out that the 2002 edition is painfully different from the 1990 version, then I will go to the trouble to scan my 1990 copy.  But if the 2002 edition is not lacking, then I won't take the time to scan my 1990 edition.  I wish I could see a copy of the first English edition!  If you have that edition, how can I convince you to send me a scan?

Below is a photo of the TOC page from the 1990 edition.  

 

* The reason why Thrift Books is my favorite seller is because they are opposed to Amazon.  After what Amazon did to Trump in 2020, I boycotted Amazon, I swore off of using Amazon.  It was then and still is now a tough oath to keep.  Thrift Books has helped a lot.
   Amazon is being quiet now, but I remember what Amazon did to Trump.  Amazon tried to annihilate Trump.  Amazon failed.  Amazon overestimated its power.  It has power, but not as much as it imagined.  Now we have caught a glimpse of Amazon's "soul."  Amazon is a servant of the Antichrist, and I will not let myself forget that, as convenient as it would be.  Amazon backed off, but never offered a formal apology.  Sometimes you only get one quick peek behind the mask of a psychopath.  When that happens, do not doubt what you saw.  And do not forget.  Do not doubt what God allowed you to see.

    And don't let yourself get tricked into that pseudo-Christian forgiveness.  That's something the psychopath usually can count on.  This is why Christians are so vulnerable.  The psychopath just waits until the Christian "forgives and forgets" without ever offering a satisfactory apology.  Sometimes, if you have trouble forgetting, the psychopath will remind you that remembrance of wrongs is a sin.  But keep staying honest with yourself, — isn't the "forgive-forget" just the easy way out, — laziness?  Don't get lazy.  Stay vigilant.  Stay true to the truth.   And when it looks like the evil has gone to sleep, don't be tricked by that either.  The psychopath is only pretending.  Remember also the Holy Father story that ends: "You knew I was a snake when you picked me up."

 

https://www.thriftbooks.com

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