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Why shouldn't one seek a vision? 7:58. How do you repel enemies through action and vision? 26:35. Saint John Climacus had a vision and received instructions from an Angel. 27:47. The perfect ones admire vision through dispassion. 29:5. Abstinence and silence of the lips are appropriate for those who begin to cry. 7:4. When can we hide our abstinence before others? 14:10. Some abstinence is appropriate for the innocent, and another for the guilty and repentant, and why? 14:14. Abstinence of the womb helps to keep the tongue from speaking too many words. 14:23. The narrow path of abstinence leads to purity, and the wide path of gluttony leads to the destruction of fornication. 14:29. About fasting, its fruits and benefits. 14:33. About abstinence without humility (see Fornication). 15:40. Abstinence and humility in the struggle (see Fornication). 15:69. Abstinence binds the feet of carnal passion. 15:86. Abstinence from food should not be filled with excess sleep, and vice versa. 26:143. Abstinence is the mother of health, and where does it come from? 26:191. Fasting is the extinguishing of the kindling of the flesh. 26:192. 213. Flesh withered from abstinence cannot be a place of rest for demons. 26:203. The limit of extreme abstinence and gluttony (see Gluttony). 29:10. Obedience is the grave of one's own will and the resurrection of humility. 4:3. About three degrees of mortification of one's own will. 4:4. In obedience one must beware of the temptations of self-indulgence. 4:5. One must enter into the struggle without one's own will. 4:36. About the benefits of killing one’s own will before a mentor. 4:44. If you have found a spiritual physician and spiritual artists, sell yourself to them on the gold of humility and obedience and tear apart the charter of your will before them. 4:94. About the harm of choosing obedience of your own free will. 4:107. Abandonment of one's will and impartiality is a sign of remembering death. 6:6. By denying one's will one acquires contrition of the heart. 15:84. Rejection of one's will is higher than rejection of possessions. 17:9. Why does the humble person abhor his own will and not rely on himself? 25:54. About knowing the will of God and distinguishing it from our own. 26:109. How should those who want to know the will of God in their affairs act? 26:110. 111. About the means that some have used to know the will of God. 26:112–115. To hesitate and be perplexed in one’s affairs is a sign of a glory-loving soul. 26:116. 117. The Lord judges our deeds according to our intentions. 26:118. Why does God sometimes hide His will from us? 26:119. How a wise shepherd deprived those who were of their own will and passion of their favorite things, and what was the benefit of this. (In the Word to the Shepherd.). 14:4. It is better to expel the novice from the monastery than to allow him to carry out his will. (In the Word to the Shepherd.). 14:4. Unleavened bread and bitter potion form the cutting off of one’s will and the cruelty of fasting (see Obedience) (In the Word to the Shepherd.). 14:10. How strong our spiritual enemies are. 1:24. Those at war are collecting untimely labors for themselves. 9:5. Hatred sometimes breaks the bonds of prodigal love. (see Fornication). 9:7. Why are enemies sometimes pleased? 26:148. It is impossible to reward one time with another, and why? 6:23. About obedience with faith to the mentor. 4:2. 36. 10 4. How to maintain faith in mentors and not judge them? 4:7. A sign of faith and love for the mentor. 4:120. About the dangers of superstitious signs. 26:101. A strong will is the mother of renunciation of the world, and vice versa, 26:187. Faith and wandering life in the monastery is the death of the love of money. 26:193. What is right faith without works and untrue faith with good works likened to? 26:235. Signs and actions of living faith. 27:68. Faith, hope and love bind and contain all good; what they are like, and what their fruits are. 30:1–3. You might be interested in: