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Let me repeat this saying of mine that I once expressed on some other occasions: Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.
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Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.
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Happy is the monk who views the welfare and progress of all men with as much joy as if it were his own.
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Happy is the spirit that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.
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Happy is the monk who considers all men as god — after God.
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Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer.
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Happy is the spirit which, praying with distraction, goes on increasing its desire for God.
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Evagrius Ponticus
Born:
345
Died:
399
(aged 54)
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