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Saint Symeon the New Theologian

It drags the soul

29 March 2017

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Let’s pay for our soul to acquire discernment with the coin of contempt for the transient things of life on earth. Let’s seek spiritual gifts, ‘the greater gifts’, and free ourselves, through constant struggle, of our corporeal outlook, which drags the soul into irrational urges and makes people completely dumb animals.

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