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Diadoque de Photicé est un des auteurs ascétiques incorporés à la Philocalie. Il fut évêque de Photicé, en Épire, jusqu'à une date située entre 467 et 474.

Photicé, identifiable à des ruines près de Paramythia en Grèce, est un ancien évêché de la province romaine d'Épire dans le diocèse civil de Macédoine. Comme tous les sièges épiscopaux de la préfecture du prétoire d'Illyricum, l'évêché de Photicé a fait partie de patriarcat de Rome jusqu'au milieu du VIIIe siècle, avant d'être soumis au patriarcat œcuménique de Constantinople. Wikipedia  

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Diadoque de Photicé: Citations en anglais

“With tears we sow seeds of prayer in the earth of the heart, hoping to reap the harvest in joy.”

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§ 73
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“The eye of the soul cannot be led astray when its veil, by which I mean the body, is refined to near-transparency through self-control.”

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§ 71
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”

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§ 70
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“If, therefore, we learn persistently to be detached from the good things of this world, we shall be able to unite the earthly appetite of the soul to its spiritual and intellectual aspiration, through the communion of the Holy Spirit who brings this about within us. For unless His divinity actively illumines the inner shrine of our heart, we shall not be able to taste God's goodness with the perceptive faculty undivided, that is, with unified aspiration.”

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§ 28
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“One side of the soul is carried away by the passionate part in man, and we are then captivated by the good things of this life, but the other side of the soul frequently delights in the activity of the intellect and, as a result, when we practice self-restraint, the intellect longs to pursue heavenly beauty.”

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§ 28
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“If the soul, through attentiveness, reduces the blindness caused by the love of this world, it will consider its slightest faults to be very grave and will continually shed tears. ... But if the soul persists in its worldly disposition, even though it commits a murder or some other act deserving severe punishment, it takes little notice; and it is quite unable to discern its other faults, often considering them to be signs of progress, and in its wretchedness it is not ashamed to defend them heatedly.”

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§ 27
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“The perceptive faculty natural to our soul is single, but it is split into two distinct modes of operation as a result of Adam's disobedience.”

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§ 25
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“No one can love God consciously in his heart unless he has first feared Him with all his heart. Through the action of fear the soul is purified and, as it were, made malleable and so it becomes awakened to the action of love.”

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§ 16
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“Whoever loves himself cannot love God.”

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§ 12
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“Spiritual discourse always keeps the soul free from self-esteem, for it gives every part of the soul a sense of light, so that it no longer needs the praise of men.”

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§ 11
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

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