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613–700 Qatar
Isaac of Nineveh (c. 613 – c. 700), also known as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism.
Also known as: Isaac the Syrian, Saint Isaac of Nineveh, Saint Isaac the Syrian
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Therefore, as I have said, one must not call this gift and grace spiritual prayer
Wherever you are, be a solitary in your way of thinking—alone and a stranger in heart, not involved .
This is the consummation of the (ascetic) life in the body (that takes place) on the level of the soul
The first delight of the spiritual revelation of the mind is the contemplation of the care of God
There is nothing so capable of banishing the inveterate habits of licentiousness from our soul
What watering is to plants, exactly the same is continual silence for the growth of knowledge.
How feeble is the power of ink and the traces of the letters to indicate in writing the precise nature of action
But when his mind progresses in subtle reflection upon the world to come
None of those things by which God is now made known through nature
The state in the soul for truth is the stillness of the intellect
A humble man is never pleased to see gatherings, confused crowds, tumult, shouts and cries, opulence, adornment, and luxury, the cause of insobriety
The life of solitaries is higher than this world
A humble man is never rash, hasty, or perturbed
Just as there is nothing which resembles God
In the case of a person who has attained to this converse of contemplation in his ascetic way of life
The mode of conduct of this (present) life provides (an opening) for the functioning of the senses
The aim of contemplation of the world to come is to be seen in the coming into being of the holy angels—
The man whose tongue is inclined to silence will acquire a humble discipline in all his habits
It can also happen that from time to time a certain stillness, without any insights, can fall upon a person
A desolate place, because of the great barrenness that reigns there, causes us to acquire a deadness of heart
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