Some thoughts from St. Nicolai Velemirovic on “bodily sin:”
Deliver my soul from self-delusion, my God, so that my body may also be delivered from bodily sin.
Deliver my soul from foolish arrogance and burning anger, and my body will neither behave foolishly nor burn.
The soul designed the body to be a portrait of herself, to be the organ of her speech. The body is mute and inert, either for good or for evil, if the soul will not speak.
The body knows nothing of adultery, if the soul does not tell it. Adultery is carried out in the heart; the body only repeats in its clumsy way what has been woven with fine threads in the mysterious chambers of the heart.
My neighbors, look upon a woman the way a woman looks upon herself and self-delusion will fall from your eyes like scales. Look upon every being from within that being , and you will look, not with desire, but with compassion ….
Prayers by the Lake, Prayer LXXII.
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