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WHAT DO WE MEAN
BY “DEATH TO THE
WORLD”?
“The world is the
general name for
all
the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we
call them
the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names,
we call
them the passions. The passions are the following: love of riches,
desire for
possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of
honour
which gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of
position, the
craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothes and vain ornaments, the
itch for
human glory which is a source of rancour and resentment, and physical
fear.
Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead; for
though
living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of
these
passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the
world,
and how far you are dead to it”
‑ St. Isaac the
Syrian
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