St Justin Popovich - A troubled mind and chaotic thoughts are the fruit of a disordered life...
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Lessons by our Holy Fathers
When the passions are driven from the soul with the help of the virtues, when “the curtain of the passions is drawn back from the eyes of the mind,” then the intellect can perceive the glory of the other world.
The soul grows by means of the virtues, the mind is confirmed in the truth and becomes unshakable, “girded for encountering and slaying every passion.”
Freedom from the passions is brought about by the crucifying of both the intellect and the flesh. This makes a man capable of contemplating God.
The intellect is crucified when unclean thoughts are driven out of it, and the body when the passions are uprooted. “A body given over to pleasure cannot be the abode of the knowledge of God.”
St Justin Popovich
