In choosing a starets you renounce your own will and surrender it to him in perfect submission, absolute self-abnegation. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe] Reference
Dostoevsky insists that the institution of the starets in imperial Russia came from the East, 'the practice of a thousand years.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe] Reference
The Greek words used are starets and geront, but they basically mean the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
You don’t even have to think about what you’re saying, the starets said. From Wordnik.com. [j.d. salinger | 1919 – 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
And then he meets this starets — this very advanced religious person I mentioned, the one who’d been studying the Philokalia for years and years and years. From Wordnik.com. [j.d. salinger | 1919 – 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
“Anyway,” she went on, “the starets tells the pilgrim that if you keep saying that prayer over and over again — you only have to just do it with your lips at first — then eventually what happens, the prayer becomes self-active. From Wordnik.com. [j.d. salinger | 1919 – 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
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