By St. Theofan the Recluse.
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Content:
I. Procrastination. A Common Ailment. 2. Habits and Inclinations that Imprison a Person in Sin. 3. Thought Processes that Keep One in Blindness. 4. Cease Making Excuses in Sins and Work on your Blindness. 5. How to Soften your Insensitive Heart. 6. How to Drive away the Sleep of Indolence. 7. Labor over yourself without Relaxing. 8. Reasoning with yourself about Salvation. 9. God's Grace Chooses well-known Means. 10. Awaiting God's Visitation. 11. What is Grace-Filled Awakening? 12. Discerning States of Awakening from Natural States.
Part Three. How the Christian Life is Lived, Ripened and Fortified, and about the Order of a God-pleasing Life.
1. The Three Powers of the Soul and Their Curative Exercises. 2. Bodily Exercises 3. The Outward Ordering of Life. 4. Forming a Spiritual Atmosphere through Govenie. 5. General Notes about all These Ascetic Labors and Practices. 6. Exercises for Developing the Powers of the Soul According to the Spirit of Christian Life. 7. Keeping the Body in the Spirit of New Life. 8. The Order of External Life According to the Spirit of New Life. 9. Grace-filled Means of Developing and Strengthening the Spiritual Life.