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Feelings. Chaste and collected feelings give birth to peace in the soul (page 5, p. 25). – Silence mortifies external feelings and resurrects internal movements (page 21, p. 94). – Many great Fathers tried more about the orderliness of feelings than about other matters (f. 41, p. 172). – Remembrance of death serves as a bond for external members (senses) (page 41, pp. 172–173). – Without silence, it is impossible to subordinate external feelings to the soul (page 42, p. 180). – Spiritual feeling has contemplative power, like the apple of the body’s eyes (page 43, p. 181). – When the mind becomes jealous of virtue, then external feelings do not yield to victory over themselves (sin) (page 49, p. 223). – A monk must flee not only from the annoying passions, but also from his feelings (fol. 54, p. 238). – When suffering in bodily deeds, one must be protected from relaxation of the senses (fol. 56, p. 277). – What harm does the mind experience from feelings, and in what cases do they benefit from it? (fn. 56, p. 280). – The good fruits of victory over feelings (page 56, page 288). – Why should feelings be protected? (fn. 71, p. 363). – There is no benefit in depriving yourself of sensory things and pleasing your senses with them (page 78, p. 386). – The resurrection of feelings is the death of the heart (fol. 85, p. 411). – Who is like the one who grieves with his heart, but gives freedom to his feelings? (fn. 89, p. 419; fn. 90, p. 428). This index is based on the index appended to the works of St. Isaac the Syrian, published by Optina Pustyn in 1854. * “Ascetic words.” Reprint. Sergiev Posad. 1911. M.: “Rule of Faith”, 1998