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Steadfast hope is the door to impartiality; the opposite is self-evident. 26:188. What is hope? And what are its fruits? 30:28. 29.30. 31. 32. What gives birth to hope? And what destroys it? 30:33. 34. Those who have left the world need a mentor. 1:7. Those who consider it unnecessary to have a mentor on the path of piety have been deceived. 1:7; 4:70. 73. How should one proceed in choosing a mentor, before entering the field of obedience, in accordance with the quality of one’s passions? 4:6. 20. Having chosen a mentor, one should no longer judge him. 4:6. 7.112. It is useful for a novice when a mentor accuses him of self-will. 4:9. When betraying oneself to a mentor, one must first confess one’s sins to him. 4:10. When the one who obeys has faith and love for the shepherd, then he does not have any evil thoughts against his father and does not leave him. 4:26. 28. Why does a mentor harm his subordinates when he does not cause them dishonor and annoyance? And what triple harm comes from this? 4:27. A soul not tied by faith and love to the shepherd remains in that place in vain. 4:28. What is the use of killing your will before a mentor? 4:44. How can we gain the favor of our mentor? 4:45. One who does not hide anything from a mentor shows true faith in him. 4:46. What is the benefit of obeying your father perfectly? 4:50. What is the use, in the absence of a mentor, to think about his presence before us? (In the Word to the Shepherd.). 12:4. Who is he who sometimes obeys and sometimes disobeys his father? 4:60. If some stumble even with the help of a guide, then, without him, what harm would they suffer? 4:68. When one spiritual doctor recognizes himself as insufficient, he must go to another. 4:70. Those who, having received benefit from a spiritual doctor, leave him and go to another, are worthy of punishment. 4:72. One must remain silent in the presence of a mentor. 4:78. We must endure everything from our father, according to our duty; but, having endured reproaches from him, we still cannot call ourselves patient. 4:84. It is useful for novices to see the virtues of their teacher and not look at his shortcomings. 4:98. About faith in a mentor; and what is the sign of true faith? 4:104. 120. Comparison of sins against God and against the mentor. 4:121. How to accept reprimands, annoyance and dishonor from your boss? 7:19. Those who, through humility, have risen from the fall, and after their recovery, can become mentors to others. 26:13. In what case can they teach others and those who struggle with previous skills, like those mired in muddy cronyism and warning others from this. 26:14. What is sometimes medicine for one is poison for another. 26:25. About a skilled and unskilled doctor - healing mental ulcers and illnesses. 26:26. Sometimes the medicine of obedience is appropriate for the same patient, and sometimes silence and silence are appropriate. 26:27. Those who want to know the will of God in their affairs must ask with faith and humility the fathers and brethren and accept their advice as from the mouth of God. 26:110. An example of how a soul that has a good shepherd ascends to heaven, although it once committed many sins. 26:236. An example of how those who follow the path of monasticism without permission perish, although they know all the wisdom of this world. 26:237. What is the use of recognizing your weakness and spiritual impotence? 1:8. Present your weakness to the Lord, recognizing your powerlessness, and you will receive the gift of chastity. 15:26. You will tie your hands to carnal warfare if you recognize your weakness in the fight against it. 15:86. The supernatural virtues of holy men should excite us either to jealousy or to the knowledge of our weakness. 26:125. Insensitivity and hardness of heart What is insensibility and petrification? And where does it come from? 18:1. 2. The property and pitiful disposition of a painless feeling and heart. 18:3. 4. The passion of satiety, strengthened by insensibility, drives away crying. 18:4. Saturation, time and poor skill return insensibility; and one possessed by a bad skill will never free himself from it. 18:5. You can free yourself from insensibility by remembering the dead and fasting. 18:5. What causes hard-heartedness? 26:46. For one who renounces the world, it is fitting that the Lord command the rich young man to become poor. 2:4. He who mourns himself rejects his possessions and does not spare his body. 16:4. How did the poor with money become rich spiritually? 16:9. What is non-acquisitiveness? 17:1. The non-covetous other is the ruler of the world and why? 17:2. He is alien to addiction and sadness. 17:3. 4. He who has tasted heavenly blessings despises earthly ones. 17:6. The recklessly non-covetous suffers double harm, and why? 17:7. Birds are an example of non-covetousness for a monk. 17:8. The advantage of one who rejects his will over one who rejects property. 17:9. Contempt for things eliminates justifications. 17:11. Faith and memory of death lead to carelessness and rejection of the body. 27:12. Nothing humbles the soul more than a beggarly state. 25:66. How the demon of the love of money fights the non-covetous, under the guise of alms, to gain money. 16:145. What is the extreme limit of non-covetousness and love of money? 29:10. What gives birth and what destroys hope? 30:33. 34. How easily can one lose a well-ordered and hard-won disposition? 3:23. You might be interested in: