Desert Fathers: Guarding the wellspring

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A brother said to Sisois, “I want to guard my heart.”

He said to him, “How can we guard the heart if our tongue leaves the door of the fortress open?”

– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V

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