Chapter 37Evagr.1.37
Κεφ. ΛΖ'
The Interplay of Thought and Passion
Evagrius invites the practitioner to discern the causal relationship between the movement of thoughts and the stirring of the passions.
We must consider whether a thought stirs up our passions or whether our passions stir up a thought, for some have held the former view, and others the latter.
Read the original Latin
Πότερον ἡ ἔννοια τὰ πάθη κινεῖ, ἢ τὰ πάθη τὴν ἔννοιαν προσεκτέον· τισὶ μὲν γὰρ ἔδοξε τὸ πρότερον, τισὶ δὲ τὸ δεύτερον.
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