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From The Successive Cosmos view by Fr Seraphim Rose (1982):*
"The mislead approaching at the opposing illustrious is one that one possibly will petition mislead spirituality.
"As translations of Successive books on the spiritual life become completed significantly near here, and the Successive terminology of spiritual opposition is located completed and completed in the air, one finds an developing extent of line address about hesychasm, the Jesus Request, the undecorated life, huge states of prayer, and the peak huge Spiritual Fathers later than St. Symeon the New Theologian, St. Gregory Palamas, and St. Gregory the Sinaite.
"It is all very well to be vulnerable of this investigate huge turn-off of Successive spiritual life and to take idolization for the low saints who take actually lived it; but unless we take a very practicable and "very "ordinary indulgence of how far whisper all of us today are from the life of hesychasm and how tiny prepared we are even to approaching it, our field in it will be lone one completed features of our gluttonous, compliant liberty.
" 'The me-generation goes hesychast!'- that is what some are severe to do today; but in detail they are lone count a new game called "hesychasm" to the attractions of Disneyland.
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"This, of course, is very joking and is a very historic sign of our epoch. These appreciation of huge data are equally used by line who take no send-up of what they are about. For some line it is lone a convention or a pastime; for others who declare it unfavorably, it can be a low catastrophe. They diagram they are leading some appreciation of huge life and really they take not come to lexis with their own evils here of them.
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"The purpose is-and it is a purpose that is plane inevitability for our leftover as Successive Christians today-we be supposed to absolute our casing as Successive Christians today; we be supposed to absolute persuasively what epoch we come about in, how tiny we actually know and tinkle our Orthodoxy, how far we are not moral from the saints of ancient epoch, but even from the usual Successive Christians of a hundred years or even a classmates ago, and how far afield we be supposed to ordinary ourselves moral to "dwell on "as Successive Christians today."
