70. You will not be able to pray purely if you are all involved with material affairs and agitated with unremitting concerns. For prayer is the rejec… - Evagrius Ponticus

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70. You will not be able to pray purely if you are all involved with material affairs and agitated with unremitting concerns. For prayer is the rejection of concepts.

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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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The main contemplations are five, under which all contemplation is comprised. And they say that the first is the contemplation of the adorable and holy Trinity, and that the second and the third are the contemplation of the incorporeal and the corporeal realities, and that the fourth and the fifth are the contemplation of the Judgment and of Providence.

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