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Mary Hansbury offers a fresh presentation of On Ascetical Life by Isaac of Nineveh, whose monastic anthropology had a major influence on all of Byzantine spiritual literature. According to St. Isaac, the way toward God was threefold: the way of the body, the way of the soul, and the way of the spirit. In the first stage, the person begins with a total preoccupation with the passions and moves...

misery and by weariness from the practice of sin, bring to your mind the former times of diligence and how even in little things you showed care and were moved with zeal against those who would impede your course. You sighed for the sake of the little things which you neglected accidentally and you were utterly weaving a crown of victory with them. Then by these and similar memories your soul will be aroused as from the depth and be clad with a blaze of zeal. And as from the dead it will arise from
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