If you wish to hold fast to stillness
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and consider that no one else exists in creation save you yourself and God Whom you heed | even as you have been taught by your fathers who lived before you. | Homily 21, p. 234
Love is the offspring of knowledge of the truth which, as is commonly confessed, is given to all.
Question Whence does a man perceive that he has attained to humility?
On the sequence of ways by which the mind is steered towards the glorious things pertaining to God.
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