Hope: The flight of the intellect in love towards that for which it hopes.
Patience: With the eyes of the mind always to see the invisible as visible.
Freedom from avarice: To desire not to have possessions with the same fervor as men generally have to have possessions.
Knowledge: To lose awareness of oneself through going out to God in ecstasy.
Humility: Attentive forgetfulness of what one has accomplished.
Freedom from anger: A real longing not to lose one's temper.
Purity: Unwavering perception of God.
Love: Growing affection for those who abuse us.
Total transformation: Through delight in God, to look on the repulsiveness of death as a joy.
Saint Diadochos of Photiki (400 - 486)
Philokalia Vol 1, p 252.
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