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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Exile requires great discretion

Venerable John Climacus ~ The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Step 3 ~ On Exile

¶2. Those who have come to love the Lord are at first unceasingly and greatly disturbed by this thought, as if burning with divine fire. I speak of separation from their own, undertaken by the lovers of perfection so that they may live a life of hardship and simplicity. But great and praiseworthy as this is, yet it requires great discretion; for not every kind of exile, carried to extremes, is good.

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