Passions peculiar to the body
From Monachos Patristic Quotations Index
St Gregory of Sinai (14th Century)
- 'The passions that pertain to the body differ from those that pertain to the soul; those affecting the appetitive faculty differ from those affecting the incensive faculty; and those of the intelligence differ from those of the intellect and the reason. But all intercommunicate, and all collaborate, the bodily passions with those of the appetitive faculty, passions of the soul with those of the incensive faculty, passions of the intelligence with those of the intellect, and passions of the intellect with those of the reason and memory.' -- On Commandments and Doctrines, 78, in the Philokalia, vol. iv, p. 226.
- '...The passions of the appetitive faculty are greed, licentiousness, dissipation, insatiateness, self-indulgence, avarice, and self-love, which is the worst of all. The passions of the flesh are unchastity, adultery, uncleanliness, profligacy, injustice, gluttony, listlessness, ostentation, self-adornment, cowardice and so on.' -- ibid, 79, p. 226.
