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When someone is aflame with love for God, he can no longer bear to see those things visible to our sensible eyes. For now that he has received other eyes, the eyes of faith, at all times he intellectually perceives the things of heaven, and it is upon them that he fixes his intellect. While he walks on earth, it is as if he lives in heaven... Whoever is concerned to pursue the path of virtue and wants to ascend from earth to heaven abandons all that is materially visible, and with all his powers devotes himself to the struggle that his path involves. Until he manages to ascend to the very height of heaven, he neither pauses nor is he seduced by anything he sees [on his way]. -St. John Chrysostom (On Genesis)***
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