Freedom from Passions

93. If you want to be free of all the passions, practise self-control, love and prayer.

~ St. Thalassios the Libyan

From “On Love, Self-Control and Life in accordance with the Intellect” written for Paul the Presbyter, First Century

G.E.H. Palmer and Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware trans., The Philokalia: the complete text, vol. 2 (New York: Faber and Faber, 1981), 312.

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