Part Three: How the Christian Life is Lived, Ripened and Fortified, and about the Order of a God-pleasing Life. Chapter Four. Preserving the Spirit of Zeal for God: 1. Being Within When a brood hen has found some grain, she lets her chicks know about it, and no matter where they happen to be at the moment, they come flying over to her and gather beak-to-beak at that spot where her beak is. It is just the same when divine grace acts upon the heart of a man. His spirit delves into it with its consciousness, and after it follow all the powers of the soul and body. Now comes the law for being within: hold your consciousness in your heart and forcefully gather there all the powers of the soul and body. Being within is the locking of the consciousness in the heart, and the forceful gathering of the powers of the soul and body is the essential means or activity of podvig. Incidentally, they mutually give birth to and presuppose each other, so that one does not happen without the other. Whoever is locked within the heart is gathered, and whoever is gathered is within the heart. St. Theofan the Recluse The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation.
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