Those who enter this contest must
renounce all things, despise all things, deride all things, and shake
off all things, that they may lay a firm foundation. A good
foundation of three layers and three pillars is innocence, fasting
and temperance.
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But he who has an attachment to
anything visible is not yet delivered from grief. For how is it
possible not to be sad at the loss of something we love?
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If anyone thinks he is without
attachment to some object, but is grieved at its loss, then he is
completely deceiving himself.
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The man who associates with people of
the world or approaches them after his renunciation will certainly
either fall into their traps or will defile his heart by thinking
about them; or if he is not defiled himself yet by condemning those
who are defiled, he too will himself be defiled.
John Climacus
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