Some people, because their minds have gone so long without nourishment, lose their desire to eat and so do not notice the harm they are suffering.
— Gregory Palamas
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Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.
Anyone who considers himself guilty before God and repents must believe that the reproach and contempt of others towards him is just and to be endured.
How can someone have the freedom to choose and the power to act freely, unless he were able to be evil, should he so wish?
As the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.
To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (1344)
Let us take off our life’s complex covering of rapacity and greed, since it is ugly in God’s sight and condemned, and let us put on, as the elect of God, compassion, humility, modesty and meekness.
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