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“It was given to Abba Anthony to see a doctor in Alexandria who was simply and humbly doing what God had given him to do. His inner being stood in the presence of the Lord as he worked and prayed. According to the literature of the desert, this is the goal of our life in this world as it is set out for all Christians, a goal that the solitary monk tried to attain through his special vocation.”
― Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, The Place of the Heart: An Introduction to Orthodox Spirituality

“The physical heart is the symbol of these "unfathomable depths." We need to throw our "intellectual" thoughts into the furnace of the spiritual heart where they can be heated up and burst into flame; then the burning cry will spring forth and rise toward Jesus the God-Man. This is in fact the meaning of the search for the "place of the heart.”
― Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, The Place of the Heart: An Introduction to Orthodox Spirituality by Elisabeth Behr-Sigel