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Those entering monasticism must choose places and a way of life in accordance with their spiritual structure. 1:25; 4:94. Monastic life is contained in three main dispensations and images of achievement: in hermitage, in silence, with one or two, and in community life. 1:26. What places should those entering monasticism choose? 3:17. Those living in the hostel must guard themselves from anger. 4:77. Living in a brotherhood, one should not show oneself to be more righteous than them, and why? 4:81. 82. The hostel is the heaven on earth. 4:87. The place or monastery where you will enter must be for you a tomb before the tomb. 4:94. If you don’t receive spiritual benefit from a place, don’t hesitate to leave it. 4:97. When borims are about to move to another place, it means that we are pleased with the first one. 4:109. Examples of patience for those living in a hostel: Avvakir. 4:29. John Savvait. 4:111. Various advice from John Savvait given to three brethren regarding the choice of the type of monastic life. 4:112. Those living in a hostel must be careful not to develop bad morals instead of good ones. 4:113. 114. Those staying in the hostel must especially strive against two passions: gluttony and irascibility. 4:117. Encouragement for novices living in the dormitory, whom the Lord, like gold in a furnace, tempts. 4:126. What benefits does the memory of death bring to those living in the dormitory? 6:4. Those overcome by anger and at the same time prone to lustful passion benefit from a lifestyle that is sometimes sociable and sometimes silent, according to the opinion of their mentor. 8:18. How useful is community life for those prone to arrogance and anger, deceit and hypocrisy. 8:25. The hostel counteracts despondency. 13:4. What is the community life like, and what benefits does it bring to the ascetics? 26:170. Those who strive courageously in the community are woven with crowns of peace and silence. 27:1. There are lazy people in the community who reach complete destruction, and why? On the contrary, there are also those who give up laziness, looking at those who are careful. 27:34. Whoever rejects correct or incorrect reproof rejects his own salvation. 4:44. He who rejects reproof reveals the passion of pride, and vice versa. 23:11. How the wise old man exposed his brother’s pride. 23:14. What harm occurs if the pastor does not expose the vices of the brethren? (In the Word to the Shepherd.). 6:2. 3. What is the sign if someone, when rebuked in private, is not ashamed? (In the Word to the Shepherd.). 6:4. What power does skill have in good and evil? 4:64. What turns into a skill and feeling is inalienable. 7:63. Anyone who is carried away at times by the passion of irritability and anger acquires a harmful habit in this. 8:11. A bad skill returns and strengthens insensibility. One obsessed with bad skill will never free himself from insensibility. 18:5. Much salvation comes from habit, and therefore one must strive against it at first. 19:2. It is impossible to overcome sinful habits without difficulty; and how harmful it is to add new ones. 26:38. If the soul becomes established in sinful habits, then demons no longer fight it. 26:65. The snake shedding its skin serves as an example for us of how to put off former evil habits and passions - that is, through the narrow and cramped path of fasting and dishonor. 26:201. Comparison of how those who are rigid in evil skills are involuntarily carried away by them. 26:212. How should one curb the curiosity of the mind and not allow it to condemn one’s neighbor? 4:36. The zealous must beware of condemning the lazy. 4:100. How can a novice avoid judging his mentor? 4:112. Under what pretext do some slander and condemn others? 10:4. What should we remember to avoid judging others? 10:4. 6. 8. Anyone who wants to free himself from condemnation must attribute the guilt of sin not to his neighbor, but to his enemy. 10:5. How can those who judge their neighbor be kept from this vice? 10:7. The shortest way to receive forgiveness of sins is not to condemn anyone. 10:7. One should not condemn those who sin even at death; and why? 10:8. Whatever sins we condemn our neighbor for, we ourselves fall into. 10:9. We fall into condemnation of our neighbors because we do not remember our sins. 10:10. Demons force us either to sin or to condemn those who sin; and for what? 10:11. Among those who condemn, there are those who themselves sin gravely in secret, while others are mercilessly condemned for minor but obvious mistakes. 10:13. What does it mean to judge and condemn? 10:14. And one condemnation, without other sins, can destroy us. 10:15. A prudent person notices only the virtues of others, while a crazy person notices vices and shortcomings. 10:16. One should not condemn one’s neighbor, even if one has seen someone sinning with one’s own eyes, and why? 10:17. The cause and door of condemnation is verbosity. 11:1. To judge others is to be self-condemned. 11:1. When judging others and exalting others, the entire feat against the flesh is in vain. 15:86. One should not despair, even if one falls every day. 5:30. Why shouldn't we despair? 5:38. In times of despair, the thought of God's mercy is useful. 6:10. Proof of why you shouldn’t despair when you fall? 15:32. Before the fall, the enemies present God as loving of mankind, but after that they lead us to despair. 15:33. Despair is the opposite of repentance. 15:34. The spirit of despair rejoices, seeing in us the multiplication of sinful ulcers. 22:3. Sometimes the demon tries to drive us into despair through blasphemous thoughts. 23:45. 47. Even if someone has fallen into all the pits of sin, if he humbles himself, let him be content. 26:13. There is despair from many sins, and there is also from pride; and how do they differ? 26:89. One should not despair when hearing about the supernatural virtues of holy men; and why? 26:125. How to reflect despair and the opposite exaltation that can be in one person. 26:146. 150. Just as it is impossible for a dying person to walk, so it is impossible for a desperate person to be saved. 26:234. Just as someone suffering from fever has no reason to kill himself, so no one should despair until their last breath. 26:244. You might be interested in: