St Maximos the Confessor - The intelligence, when well-nurtured...
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The vine produces wine, the wine drunkenness and drunkenness an evil form of ecstasy.
Similarly the intelligence - which is the vine - when well-nurtured and cultivated by the virtues, generates spiritual knowledge; and such knowledge produces a good form of ecstasy which enables the intellect to transcend its attachment to the senses.
St Maximos the Confessor
