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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
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Feb 21 2015
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For the whole array of passions: wrath, fear, cowardice, impudence, depression as well as pleasure, hatred, strife and merciless cruelty, envy as well as flattery, brutality together with brooding over injuries — they are all many despotic masters…

You really, really, really need to clean them up. Don’t be afraid, just do it!  Okay, if you’re afraid, be afraid and do it anyway!

Based on St Gregory of Nyssa

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  1. Shqip - Albanian Translation 

    Mesoni te njihni mekatet despotike (tiranike) dhe si te veproni ndaj tyre

    Gjithe koleksioni i pasioneve: zemerimin, ankthin/shqetesimin, friken, sjelljet e paturpshme, merzitjen/trishtimin, deshira jo te mira, urrejten/hatermbetjen, grindjet/mosmarreveshjet, egersite/mizorite e pameshirshme, lakmine/ziline si edhe lajkatimet, brutalitetin, se bashku me shqetesimin/humbjen ne mendime prej fyerjeve/padrejtesive – te gjitha jane mekate, padrone despotike (tiranike) per njeriun…

    Juve patjeter, patjeter duhet t’i pastroni nga vetja juaj secilin prej ketyre mekateve despotike. Mos kini frike, por menjehere mundohuni t’i pastroni te gjitha keto mekate. Edhe ne qofte se keni frike, le te keni frike dhe i pastroni keto mekate me cdo menyre!

    Sipas Shen Gregory te Nyssa

    08/03/2015 at 06:52 Reply
  2. Jonathan Dunne 

    PASSION – PASS I ON.

    21/02/2015 at 12:47 Reply
    • Ioan Toma 

      Or… PASS it ON. 🙂 In fact, as we know, one of the main methods to fight against the passions is exactly this one: leave them to pass and do not fulfill them.

      21/02/2015 at 12:53 Reply
      • Jonathan Dunne 

        I think it’s the ego – the I – that passes on (I – DIE). We let go of our selfishness (SELF – FLESH). There is plenty in language to suggest this. The EGO is a step away (in the alphabet) from GOD. The I is also a line and the number 1. When we count down from 1 to 0, we pass from SIN to SON, from LIVE (the reverse of which is EVIL) to LOVE. CHRIST did this precisely on the CROSS. The Cross itself is the ego with a line drawn through it; it is also a plus-sign, which reflects the Christian paradox of losing our life in order to find it.

        21/02/2015 at 13:27 Reply
        • Ioan Toma 

          🙂 Nice play with the English language. I also like these things in other languages which I know. Also Holy Fathers had in rare occasions such stylistic forays.

          However we should be careful to not dig too much in it and leave our central scope (our salvation).

          I don’t say that you did it (in fact I upvoted you) – I just say it for someone who possibly will overdo it.

          22/02/2015 at 17:03 Reply
          • Jonathan Dunne 

            Yes, you are right! Thank you.

            22/02/2015 at 20:35

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