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3. Prayer is a continual intercourse of the spirit with God. What state of soul then is required that the spirit might thus strain after its Master without wavering, living constantly with him without intermediary?

Evagrius Ponticus

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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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4. The state of the mind is an intelligible height resembling the colour of heaven, to which the light of the Holy Trinity comes in the time of prayer.

101. Just as bread is nourishment for the body and virtue for the soul, so is spiritual prayer nourishment for the intelligence.

120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer.

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