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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 202: Is It Possible to Attain Continual Attention in Every Thing We Do? And How Does…
That it is possible he showed, who said: Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord ’1 and: “I saw the Lord always before me, for he is on my right hand, lest I fall.”2 How it is possible has already been said: by giving no respite to the soul from the thought of God, His works and His gifts, confession of all wrongdoing and giving of thanks.
Notes
- Ps. xxv. 15.
- Ps. xvi. 8.