"Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not." -St. Silouan
The Staretz' Teaching, continued:
Chapter 6: Pure Prayer and Mental Stillness
- Concerning the Three Forms of Prayer
- On the Development of Intrusive Thoughts
- Hesychasm - Christ's Commandment to love God with all one's mind, and with all one's heart
- Anthropological Basis of Hesychasm
- Experience of Eternity
- The Start of Spiritual Life - Struggle against the Passions
Chapter 7: The Imagination and the Ascetic Struggle against its Various Aspects
Chapter 8: Uncreated Divine Light and Ways of Contemplation
- Godlike Impassibility (Dispassion)
- The Darkness of Divestiture
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