Saturday, May 26, 2012

HESYCHIA 1


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  1. WLADYSLAWMay 26, 2012 at 11:13 PM

    from ἡσυχία,
    hesychia, "stillness, rest, quiet, silence"

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  2. WLADYSLAWMay 26, 2012 at 11:18 PM

    Kallistos Ware distinguishes five distinct meanings of the term "hesychasm":

    "solitary life", a sense, equivalent to "eremitical life", in which the term is used since the 4th century;
    "the practice of inner prayer, aiming at union with God on a level beyond images, concepts and language", a sense in which the term is found in Evagrius Ponticus (345-399), Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), and Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022);
    "the quest for such union through the Jesus Prayer", the earliest reference to which is in Diadochos of Photiki (c. 450);
    "a particular psychosomatic technique in combination with the Jesus Prayer", use of which technique can be traced back at least to the 13th century;
    "the theology of St. Gregory Palamas", on which see Palamism.[3]

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  3. WLADYSLAWMay 27, 2012 at 12:31 AM

    I draw without preconceived ideas accept perhaps the one that in time of “taking a line for a walk” in a territory of positive and negative space We’ll meet a person or a group trying to make some sense of their existence.

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