“Do you desire, then, to embrace this life of solitude, and to seek out the blessings of stillness? If so, abandon the cares of the world, and the principalities and powers that lie behind them: free yourself from attachment to material things, from domination by passions and desires, so that as a stranger to all this you may attain true stillness.”
“Do not desire wealth for giving to the poor.”
Evagrius Ponticus
“Just as it is possible to think of water both while thirsty and while not thirsty, so it is possible to think of gold with greed and without greed. The same applies to other things.”
Evagrius Ponticus
“In the whole range of evil thoughts, none is richer in resources than self-esteem.”
Evagrius Ponticus