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โIn the whole range of evil thoughts, none is richer in resources than self-esteem.โ
โ118. Happy is the spirit which, praying with distraction, goes on increasing its desire for God.โ
โ60. If you are a theologian, you truly pray. If you truly pray, you are a theologian.โ
โ26. Prayer is a state of the mind destructive of every earthly mental representation.โ
โ120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer.โ
โ85. Psalm-singing is an image of wisdom which is many-sided; prayer is the prelude to immaterial and uniform knowledge.โ
โ125. A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
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โ6. Pray with tears and your request will find a hearing. Nothing so gratifies the Lord as supplication offered in the midst of tears.โ
โ101. Just as bread is nourishment for the body and virtue for the soul, so is spiritual prayer nourishment for the intelligence.
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There can be no doubt that Evagrius' mysticism on Evagrius Ponticus
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Evagrius Ponticus (345โ399 AD) was a Christian monk and ascetic.