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Another man for God’s sake spoke all the day long and received every stranger | but he, on the contrary, chose silence and stillness. | For this cause he conversed with the Spirit of God in the midst of the sea of the present life | and passed over it with sublime tranquillity in the ship of stillness | even as it was clearly revealed to certain ascetics who inquired of God concerning this. | And this is the definition of stillness | silence to all things. | If in stillness you are found full of turbulence | and you disturb your body by the work of your hands and your soul with cares | then judge for yourself what sort of stillness you are practising | being concerned over many things in order to please God! | For it is ridiculous for us to speak of achieving stillness | if we do not abandon all things and separate ourselves from every care. | Homily 21, pp. 234-5