Mystics

"Or maybe there is someone who imagines that the level and the stirring of spiritual prayer consists in one of these things."

"When he is held worthy of the prayer of understanding,"

"What then shall we say?"

"There are times when a person sits in a stillness that is guarded and wakeful,"

"Let us beware in ourselves, my beloved,"

"When someone reaches insights into creation on the path of his ascetic life,"

"What is conversation with God?"

"Thus, as I have said, there are many paths for this converse which exists with God in stillness,"

"Prayer, however, is lower in rank than being stirred in spirit: on this there is no dispute, for prayer is inferior to this mystery."

"Just as there is nothing which resembles God,"

"Just as the non-rational light was entrusted for the distinction of bodies,"

"And when, again, he departs from these things,"

"For every event, natural being and utterance in this creation there is a Sanctuary and a Holy of Holies."

"So these are the different kinds of paths which discerning solitaries follow,"

"Again, there is the person who has reached perfection on the level of the soul,"

"The state in the soul for truth is the stillness of the intellect,"

"Every reflection that exists is set in motion by the object of the reflection:"

"Wherever you are, be a solitary in your way of thinking—alone and a stranger in heart, not involved ."

"A desolate place, because of the great barrenness that reigns there, causes us to acquire a deadness of heart ,"

"When it sometimes happens that a person is held worthy of prayer of fervour as a result of the surging of grace,"

"When the intellect has received an awareness of the beauty of its nature,"

"Some rational beings are without any appellations, and some have many names;"

"Do not reckon the entire mode of life"

"The first delight of the spiritual revelation of the mind is the contemplation of the care of God,"

"There was when that there was no name for God, and there is going to be when he will not have one."

"In the case of a person who has attained to this converse of contemplation in his ascetic way of life,"

"It can also happen that from time to time a certain stillness, without any insights, can fall upon a person,"

"There is a spiritual perception which is born out of meditation;"

"Luminous meditation on God is the goal of prayer;"

"When the solitary has passed on to another"

"Once a person has, through divine assistance, become recollected from external concerns,"

"There are times when a person is transported from prayer to a wondrous meditation on God."

"On the sequence of ways by which the mind is steered towards the glorious things pertaining to God."

"The mode of conduct of this (present) life provides (an opening) for the functioning of the senses,"

"When in these matters you receive the power which stems from grace to be bound firmly to their continual stirrings,"

"Just as the sight of someone standing beside smoke cannot become clear"

"Blessed is God who uses corporeal objects continually"

"If the light-giving elements were made for things corporeal for the use of bodies and the discernment of the senses,"

"Just as all namings and appellations that concern God were with him at the beginning of creation,"

"The “noetic cloud” is the intellect that is smitten with wonder"

"Wonder of mind follows on from a solitary abode,"

"The aim of psalmody should be serene conversation with God"

"That the intellect should standing during the office or in prayer continually, again and again,"

"What watering is to plants, exactly the same is continual silence for the growth of knowledge."

"The non-intellectual light is the light that belongs to the elements."

"Accordingly, as I have said above, when—"

"The light of contemplation proceeds along"

"A humble man is never rash, hasty, or perturbed,"

"My brothers, the time of our lives is short,"

"Let the following prayer not cease from your heart night or day:"