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'How much joy, how much peace of soul would a man not have wherever he went, as Abba Poemen says, if he was one who habitually accused himself?'

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We have not been taught to kill our bodies, but to kill our passions.

Ward: "Even if a man were to make a new heaven and earth, he could not live free of care."

Ward: [Abba Poemen] also said, "The first time flee; the second time, flee; and the third, become like a sword."

Ward: Abba Poemen said, "If I am in a place where there are enemies, I become a soldier."

Ward: He also said concerning Abba Pior that every day he made a new beginning.

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