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Abba Lot used to say, "Your key opens my door." The brother said to him, "What does that mean?" The old man said, "When someone comes to see you, you say to him, 'How are you? Where have you come from? How are the brethren? Did they welcome you or not?' Then you have opened the brother’s door and you
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Abba Lot once said to his spiritual father, Abba Joseph, "Father, I fast as much as I can, continue in prayer, keep silence and contemplate, and also, through abstinence, guard myself from impure thoughts. What else can I do?" Then Abba Joseph stood up, raised his hands to heaven, and his ten fingers
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Another time, a monk who had committed the sins of fornication and idol worship came to Abba Lot, tormented by his sins. He told the elder that he could not reveal his sins to the other elders and therefore could not confess. Abba Lot told him that he would bear half the weight of the sins for the
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