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Drawing from Scripture and patristic teachings, Dumitru Staniloae offers clear discussion of the goal of Orthodox spirituality and major steps of the spiritual life. Part one of this text covers purification, part two talks about illumination, and part three, perfection. Here in translation from the original Romanian, the text retains its informal and conversational style. Staniloae notes,...

tells us that this is possible: “The common mind is worldly and changing … because nature changes it.”25 Further on he writes, “If the soul doesn’t have a good mind and good conduct it is blind and doesn’t know God the Creator and Benefactor of all,”26 or “The soul (in other words the mind), if it descends into the body, immediately is darkened by sadness and pleasure and is lost.”27 We said that the world has attracted and attracts [our] sense perception, and through it, the mind too, by its perceptible,
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