Chapter 20Evagr.1.20
Κεφ. Κ'
The Antidote to Wrath
Mercy and gentleness serve as the spiritual remedy to counteract the destructive growth of anger and hatred.
Anger and hatred intensify wrath, but acts of mercy and gentleness diminish even the wrath already present.
Read the original Latin
Ὀργὴ μὲν καὶ μῖσος αὔξει θυμόν· ἐλεημοσύνη δὲ καὶ πραΰτης καὶ τὸν ὄντα μειοῖ.
The Praktikos companion
A daily portion of stillness
Chosen Portion delivers one short contemplative reading and a guided moment of silence each day — the ascent, one step at a time.
Chosen Portion is the paced doorway into this collection: it portions the dense mystical treatises into one daily reading plus guided silence, exactly as the 14-day plan teaches.
- Daily bite-sized excerpts from the contemplative classics, never a wall of text
- A built-in timed stillness practice that grows from 2 minutes to 10
- Gentle progression through the tradition — the app remembers where you are on the ascent