124. A monk is a man who is separated from all and who is in harmony with all. - Evagrius Ponticus

27. Prayer is a state of the mind that arises under the influence of the unique light of the Holy Trinity.

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.

6. The pure mind is an incense burner at the time of prayer when it touches upon no sensible object. According to virtue we will be one on the eighth day; according to knowledge, on the last day.