faith: dispassionate understanding of God.
hope: the flight of the intellect in love towards that for which it hopes.
patience: with the eyes of the mind always to see the Invisible as visible.
freedom from avarice: to desire not to have possessions with the same fervour as men generally desire to have possessions.
knowledge: to lose awareness of oneself through going out to God in ecstasy.
humility: attentive forgetfulness of what one has accomplished.
freedom from anger: a real longing not to lose one's temper.
purity: unwavering perception of God.
love: growing affection for those who abuse us.
total transformation: through delight in God, to look on the repulsiveness of death as a joy.
-st. diodochos of photiki
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