“…This was the instruction carefully given me in the Monastery by the holy Fathers, and I began to picture silently the glorious bliss enjoyed in Heaven, by those who for the love of God have endured great trials here on Earth. My heart burned within me, my mind began to be set on spurning worldly joys completely, and seeking my Heavenly Father with all my might, as the Psalmist says: ‘It is good for me to cleave unto God and put my hope in the Lord my God’ (Psalms 73.28)”
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