65. If you long to pray, then avoid all that is opposed to prayer. Then when God draws near, he has only to go along with you. - Evagrius Ponticus

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65. If you long to pray, then avoid all that is opposed to prayer. Then when God draws near, he has only to go along with you.

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About Evagrius Ponticus

Evagrius Ponticus (345–399 AD) was a Christian monk and ascetic.

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Alternative Names: Evagrius the Solitary 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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