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101. Just as bread is nourishment for the body and virtue for the soul, so is spiritual prayer nourishment for the intelligence. - Evagrius Ponticus
" "101. Just as bread is nourishment for the body and virtue for the soul, so is spiritual prayer nourishment for the intelligence.
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About Evagrius Ponticus
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399 AD) was a Christian monk and ascetic.
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Evagrius the Solitary
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Evagrius of Pontus
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Do you desire, then, to embrace this life of solitude, and to seek out the blessings of stillness? If so, abandon the cares of the world, and the principalities and powers that lie behind them: free yourself from attachment to material things, from domination by passions and desires, so that as a stranger to all this you may attain true stillness.
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