Hesychasm
Inner stillness and the Jesus Prayer, until the heart beholds divine light
Hesychasm is the Eastern practice of inner stillness and the Jesus Prayer, cultivated as a path toward the vision of the divine light. Its tradition runs through Symeon the New Theologian, Gregory Palamas, and the Philokalia, and it defines much of Eastern Orthodox mysticism. Its theology, especially the claim that the light beheld is uncreated, was controverted and is bound up with the distinction between God's essence and energies.
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The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X · John Cassian
Introduction to the Conference. What was promised in the second book of the Institutes See the Institutes Book II. c. ix. Isaac was, as we gathered from c. xxxi., a disciple of St. Antony, and is m
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Internal Consolation · Thomas à Kempis
MY CHILD, you must strive diligently to be inwardly free, to have mastery over yourself If, likewise, in every happening you are not content simply with outward appearances, if you do not regard with
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The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X · John Cassian
Ps. lxix. (lxx.) 2. It is not impropable that this chapter suggested to S. Benedict the use of these words as the opening versicle of the hour services, a position which it has ever since occupied in
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