Chapter 62Evagr.1.62
Κεφ. ΞΒ'
The Blindness of the Mind
Both virtues and vices can obscure the mind's clarity by preventing it from perceiving the other.
Both virtues and vices blind the mind: virtues prevent it from seeing vices, while vices prevent it from seeing virtues again.
Read the original Latin
Τὸν νοῦν καὶ αἱ ἀρεταὶ καὶ αἱ κακίαι τυφλὸν ἀπεργάζονται· αἱ μέν, ἵνα μὴ βλέπῃ τὰς κακίας· αἱ δέ, ἵνα μὴ πάλιν ἴδῃ τὰς ἀρετάς.
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