“My beloved in the Lord – I speak to you as wise people, able to know yourselves – we know that those who know themselves know God …
Prepare yourselves while we have some who pray for us that the fire that Jesus came to send upon the earth [Lk 12.49], may be enkindled in your hearts, so that you may be able to exercise your heart and senses to discern the good from the bad, right from left, the eternal from the passing.”
Anthony, Letters, from Hugh Feiss, Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life, (New York: HarperSanFrancisco), 1999, p.116.