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""It is right to pray not only for your own purification, but also for that of all your fellow men, and so to imitate the angels." 40
"If you are a theologian, you will pray truly. And if you pray truly, you are a theologian." 61
"Blessed is the monk who regards every man as God after God." 121
"Blessed is the monk who looks with great joy on everyone's salvation and progress as if they were his own." 122
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""It is right to pray not only for your own purification, but also for that of all your fellow men, and so to imitate the angels." 40
"If you are a theologian, you will pray truly. And if you pray truly, you are a theologian." 61
"Blessed is the monk who regards every man as God after God." 121
"Blessed is the monk who looks with great joy on everyone's salvation and progress as if they were his own." 122
Evagrius" — Jan 27, 2025 06:43PM
“Without Contraries is no Progression.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
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“Man is but a reed, the feeblest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him… But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him – the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity then consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time, which we cannot fill.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
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“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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