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When the solitary has passed on to another

— Isaac of Nineveh

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then he encounters the light of the mind | and through peace from thoughts | he is held worthy of concentration of the intellect | and in this concentration of the intellect | he enters into this “light of the mind,” | of which the fathers speak. | The turbulence by many thoughts | is a sign of a multitude of passions. | 3.4.58, p. 200

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