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For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.

— Basil of Caesarea

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

We thus become temples of God whenever earthly cares cease to interrupt the continuity of our memory of Him.

You must give heed unto virtue, O men, which swims forth even with a man who has suffered shipwreck, and, on his coming naked to land, will render him more honoured than the happy Phaeacians.

The earth doth not cover our beloved, but heaven hath received him; let us tarry for a while, and we shall be in his company.

“The kingdom of heaven is within you.” And concerning the inner man, it consists of nothing but contemplation. Therefore the kingdom of heaven must be contemplation.

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