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The man of the passions is a man of passivity, enslaved — Dimitru Staniloae

14 December 2017 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Dimitru Staniloae

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The passions represent the lowest level to which human nature can fall. Both their Greek name, pathi, as well as the Latin, passiones, show that man is brought by them to a state of passivity, of slavery. In fact, they overcome the will, so that the man of the passions is no longer a man of will; we say that he is a man ruled, enslaved, carried along by the passions.

— Dimitru Staniloae: /Orthodox Spirituality: A Practical Guide for the Faithful and a Definitive Manual for the Scholar/

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