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Go, sell your possessions, and give them to the poor. Then take up your cross and deny yourself so that you can carry out your prayer without distraction.
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If you want to carry out your prayer in a laudable way, deny yourself hour by hour, and bear philosophically all manner of terrible things for the sake of prayer.
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Whenever you withstand hardship philosophically, you will find the fruit of this at the time of prayer.
Alex Poulos, PhD 