Experiencing freedom

Source material: The Philokalia (Quotations from The Philokalia)

St. Theognostos in On the Practice of the Virtues, Contemplation and the Priesthood: Strive to receive a sure, unequivocal pledge of salvation in your heart, so that at the time of your death you will not be distraught and unexpectedly terrified. You have received such a pledge when your heart no longer reproaches you for your failings and your conscience stops chiding you because of your fits of anger; when through God's grace your bestial passions have been tamed; when you weep tears of solace and your intellect prays undistracted and with purity; and when you await death, which most people dread and run away from, calmly and with a ready heart.
("Philokalia (Vol. 2)", p. 366)

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