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120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer. - Evagrius Ponticus
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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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81. Agape is the progeny of apatheia. Apatheia is the very flower of ascesis. Ascesis consists in keeping the commandments. The custodian of those commandments is the fear of God which is in turn the offspring of true faith. Now faith is an interior an interior good, one which is to be found even in those who do not yet believe in God.
52. To separate the body from the soul is the privilege of only of the One who has joined them together. But to separate the soul from the body lies as well in the power of the man who pursues virtue. For our Fathers gave to the meditation of death and to the flight from the body a spiritual name: anachoresis [withdrawal].
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