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Be vigilant in attending to yourself, … that you may set God before you at all times.

— Barsanuphius The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (2012)

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Humility means not reckoning oneself as anything in every situation and cutting off one’s own will in everything and calmly enduring whatever occurs externally.

And as for the conversation, when you see yourself almost theologizing, remember that silence is more admirable and more glorious than that.

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