Κεφ. Θ'
The Deception of Avarice
Avarice manipulates the mind by projecting future anxieties and the fear of dependency to justify the hoarding of wealth.
Love of money conjures up a long old age, hands too weak to work, famines and illnesses still to come, the hardships of poverty, and the shame of having to accept from others what you need.
Read the original Latin
Ἡ φιλαργυρία γῆρας μακρὸν ὑποβάλλει καὶ πρὸς ἐργασίαν ἀδυναμίαν χειρῶν, λιμούς τε ἐσομένους καὶ νόσους συμβησομένας, καὶ τὰ τῆς πενίας πικρά, καὶ ὡς ἐπονείδιστον τὸ παρ’ ἑτέρων λαμβάνειν τὰ πρὸς τὴν χρείαν.
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