STILLNESS AS A MEANS TO ATTAIN TO THE GODLY PASSION OF LOVE
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2022.2.13Keywords:
St. Silouan the Athonite, St. Sophrony (Sakharov), ascetic labor, stillness, hesychia, hesychasm, spiritual perfection, mental prayer, prayer of the heart, divine likeness, contemplation and vision of God, spiritual pleasureAbstract
This paper explores the role of mental prayer in achieving the image and likeness of God and renouncing worldly passions, bringing hesychastic theory into conversation with the life and outward conditions of modern man.
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Sakharov, Archimandrite Sophrony. Saint Silouan the Athonite. Translated by Rosemary Edmonds. Tolleshunt Knights, Essex: Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist, 1991.
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