
	Where results make sense

Topic: Accidie

Related Topics

Acedia

Seven deadly sins

Sloth

Ennui

Seven deadly sins

	The Parson's Tale
		Thanne is Accidie the angwissh of troubled herte; and Seint Augustyn seith, "it is anoy of goodnesse and joye of harm." Certes, this is a dampnable synne; for it dooth wrong to Jhesu Crist, in as muche as it bynymeth the service that men oghte doon to Crist with alle diligence, as seith Salomon.
		Of Accidie comth first, that a man is anoyed and encombred for to doon any goodnesse, and maketh that God hath abhomynacion of swich Accidie, as seith Seint John.
		Eke ther been mo speciale remedies against Accidie in diverse werkes, and in consideracioun of the peynes of helle and of the joyes of hevene, and in the trust of the grace of the holy goost, that wole yeve hym myght to perfourne his goode entente.
	www.librarius.com /cantales/parstl06.htm (1607 words)

	Chapter The Persones Tale of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
		And seint Augustyn saith, it is anoye, it is anoye of goodenesse and anoye of harme.
		Than is accidie enemy to every astaat of man. For certes thestate of man is in thre maners; eythere it is thestate of innocence, as was thastate of Adam, biforn that he fel into synne, in which estate he is holden to worche, as in praising and honouryng of God.
		The ferthe thing is that accidie is like them that be in the peyne of helle, bycause of their slouthe and of their hevynes; for thay that been damned, ben so bounde, that thay maye nought wel do nor wel thenke.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/2/14/24/10171/20.html (824 words)

	Part Nine - The Ninth Subject - The Vices
		Accidie impedes men who propose to do good and avoid evil, but cannot do so because their power is shackled by accidie.
		The accidious man associates all his higher and lower faculties to all the vices, because he is lazy in putting his faculties to work for acquiring virtues.
		Accidie perverts positive principles into privative ones, and this is why the accidious man grumbles, feigns to know the outcome of things, gives superfluous advice, reprehends good deeds and is hostile to accomplishment; besides, he binds form and corrupts matter so that his acts are characterized by indolence.
	lullianarts.net /Ars-Magna/9-9z.htm (9056 words)

	Prove you Determination
		Accidie is a form of spiritual despair, a refusal of grace, a bargain with nothingness that shuts out God's gift of the new possibility.
		Accidie begins at the center, at our relationship with God, and it stems ultimately from a refusal to live toward God as dependent creatures made in his image.
		Accidie is a partial consent to non-being, striking a bargain with insignificance.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/purgterrace4a.html (424 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Institutes, Book X (John Cassian)
		And when this has taken possession of some unhappy soul, it produces dislike of the place, disgust with the cell, and disdain and contempt of the brethren who dwell with him or at a little distance, as if they were careless or unspiritual.
		For in truth the soul which is wounded by the shaft of this passion does sleep, as regards all contemplation of the virtues and insight of the spiritual senses.
		The blessed Apostle, like a true and spiritual physician, either seeing this disease, which springs from the spirit of accidie, already creeping in, or foreseeing, through the revelation of the Holy Spirit, that it would arise among monks, is quick to anticipate it by the healing medicines of his directions.
	www.newadvent.org /Fathers/350710.htm (4536 words)

	John Cassian's Institutes, Book 10
		A description of accidie, and the way in which it creeps over the heart of a monk, and the injury it inflicts on the soul.
		For this ye do toward all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia."[342] He first began with the soothing application of praise, and made their ears submissive and ready for the remedy of the healing words.
		It will be enough to have given this single instance of this sort of men in order to put beginners on their guard, and to show clearly what evils idleness, as Scripture says,[356] can produce in the mind of a monk, and how "evil communications corrupt good manners."[357]
	www.osb.org /lectio/cassian/inst/inst10.html (2403 words)

	CSP - 'The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness Beyond the Drug Experience' by Robert S. de Ropp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He who cannot find a game worth playing is apt to fall prey to accidie, defined by the Fathers of the Church as one of the Deadly Sins, but now regarded as a symptom of sickness.
		Accidie is a paralysis of the will, a failure of the appetite, a condition of generalized boredom, total disenchantment...
		Within the matrix imposed by their religion, these players were attempting the most difficult game of all, the Master Game, the aim of which is the attainment of full consciousness or real awakening.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/master_game.html (626 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Conference 5 (John Cassian)
		For from superfluity of gluttony fornication is sure to spring, and from fornication covetousness, from covetousness anger, from anger, dejection, and from dejection, accidie.
		Of dejection there are two kinds: one, that which springs up when anger has died down, or is the result of some loss we have incurred or of some purpose which has been hindered and interfered with; the other, that which comes from unreasonable anxiety of mind or from despair.
		Of accidie there are two kinds: one of which sends those affected by it to sleep; while the other makes them forsake their cell and flee away.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/350805.htm (6463 words)

	I Will Hear God, Winter 2004-05, Notre Dame Magazine Online - University of Notre Dame
		For the past year and more, I have been swallowed up by the soul sickness known by the desert fathers as "accidie": the failure to respond to and act on a sense of divine purpose.
		Accidie appears to be as much a part of my reality as MS.
		She certainly wouldn't have recognized my condition as one of the Deadly Sins -- she had a horror of all things Catholic -- and depression (which partially reflects the characteristics of accidie) wasn't readily diagnosed in the 1950s.
	www.nd.edu /~ndmag/w0405/mairs.html (2607 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 99045815
		By the late 4th century the Christian Church was using the term to refer to 'a weariness or distress of the heart' -- a condition that was regarded as undesirable and requiring treatment.
		Accidie in the 1300s was listed by the church as a cardinal sin for it made, for example, monks lazy and sluggish.
		But the concept of accidie is more complex than that, and interpretations vary.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon031/99045815.html (3394 words)

	ACCIDIE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"ACCIDIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: accede, acidic, aecidia, ascidia.
		"ACCIDIE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time.
		"ACCIDIE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Ac/Accidie.html (333 words)

	INC: Thought-Executing Fires
		Option two is a job for Dominic, who is suspicious of the loyalties of Accidie (and of course would appreciate some dirt on Gabriel).
		If Accidie (or a similar figure) could be worked into a few adventures beforehand, the players could realise that he is beginning to Fall, or observe his Fall.
		Accidie's behaviour would also provide a tip or two: perhaps a certain willingness to slash and burn entirely, and a belief that the cruel should be punished with cruelty.
	www.sjgames.com /in-nomine/articles/seeds/executefires.html (879 words)

	Questions about the Vices
		Question: is the accidious man the way he is because of his evil nature?
		Why does accidie have successive acts, although it is not made of points or lines?
		Answer: by both, in different ways: it is caused by the intellect through laziness, but the will causes it more through solicitude, because the intellect has to work to acquire species, whereas the will does this without effort.
	lullianarts.net /Ars-Magna/x11-05ch35-52.htm (3578 words)

	Seven Deadly Sins
		Chaucer attempted to naturalise this in English by calling the sin accidie, and this winter I noticed in one of our religious periodicals a very able article headed 'The Sin of Accidie '; but not one reader in a hundred would know, without explanation, to which sin the writer intended to point.
		The inability to find any joy or satisfaction in the allotments of Providence is not, however, confined to those to whom the course of fortune has proved unkind; for the most utter weariness and disenchantment with existence will not infrequently be found in those who appear surrounded with every comfort or even luxury.
		When a man's religion is confined to his own breast and is limited to anxiety about his own eternal welfare, it is no wonder if it becomes dreary and morbid; for he is like a person who never breathes the fresh air or takes any exercise: he is not fulfilling the conditions of health.
	www.ccohmb.org /Sloth.htm (1781 words)

	CASSIAN'S CONFERENCES, CONFERENCE OF ABBOT SERAPION ON THE EIGHT PRINCIPAL FAULTS
		Some find the reasons for their being excited outside us, as covetousness and anger; others are aroused by internal feelings, as accidie (2) and dejection.
		Of deflection there are two kinds: one, that which springs up when anger has died down, or is the result of some loss we have incurred or of some purpose which has been hindered and interfered with; the other, that which comes from unreasonable anxiety of mind or from despair.
		Of vainglory, although it takes various forms and shapes, and is divided into different classes, yet there are two main kinds: (I) when we are puffed up about carnal things and things visible, and (2) when we are inflamed with the desire of vain praise for things spiritual and unseen.
	www.aroundomaha.com /ecf/volume34/ECF00020.htm (3974 words)

	What Does It Mean? - Lotus Tarot Forum
		The word is 'accidie' and it is included in the DM's for Grail Four (4 of Cups), the others being.....dissatisfaction; lethargy; accidie; stagnation of the spirit; boredom; the need to establish emotional maturity.
		Sloth is usually thought of as mere laziness, but accidie means much more.
		Accidie has another ecclesiastical definition as well: that of mental torpor.
	www.free-tarot-reading.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=4926 (299 words)

	[No title]
		Thus envy may stand side by side with accidie; and in both we see that sorrow of the world, that heavy, wilful, wasteful sadness, which is as alien from the divinely quickened sorrow of repentance as it is from the divinely quickened joy of love.
		But there is also a venial sort of accidie: a reluctance that is not deliberate, nor confirmed and hardened by a wilful choice; a sloth engendered by the persistent hanging back of a man's lower nature, which only a continuous exertion will keep up to the level or ambition of the higher life.
		And from such despondency the more positive traits of accidie are seldom very far removed; resentment, fretfulness, irritation, anger, easily find access to a heart that is refusing to believe in the reasonableness of lofty aims, and lazily contenting itself with a low estimate of its hopes, its powers, and its calling.
	www.lectionarycentral.com /trinity07/Paget.html (5539 words)

	Gleanings from Orthodox Christian Authors & the Holy Fathers - Accidie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is truly a great thing for a virgin or a monk to live in peace, especially for the younger ones.
		However, you should realize that as soon as you intend to live in peace, at once evil comes and weighs down your soul through accidie, faintheartedness, and evil thoughts.
		It also attacks your body through sickness, debility, weakening of the knees, and all the members.
	www.orthodox.net /gleanings/accidie.html (235 words)

	Conference 5
		DEJECTION and accidie generally arise without any external provocation, like those others of which we have been speaking: for we are well aware that they often harass solitaries, and those who have settled themselves in the desert without any intercourse with other men, and this in the most distressing way.
		And the truth of this any one who has lived in the desert and made trial of the conflicts of the inner man, can easily prove by experience.
		That which had been occupied by a sorrow that worketh death, will be taken by a godly sorrow and one full of joy.
	www.osb.org /lectio/cassian/conf/book1/conf5.html (4890 words)

	Sermons
		We need to become competent in some of the language of spiritual living, and in particular there is one word, which I want to make one of the key points of this sermon.
		This Accidie was a mood, which had become a gate-way to spiritual enlightenment.
		Almost any experience of loneliness or boredom is cousin to Accidie, and we as a community have to learn it inside-out.
	www.newgenius.com /religion/frozenland.htm (1052 words)

	Books IX To XI
		WE should then be able to expel this most injurious passion from our hearts, so that by spiritual meditation we may keep our mind constantly occupied with hope of the future and contemplation of the promised blessedness.
		ALL the inconveniences of this disease are admirably expressed by David in a single verse, where he says, "My soul slept from weariness,"(8) that is, from accidie.
		It will be enough to have given this single instance of this sort of men in order to put beginners on their guard, and to show clearly what evils idleness, as Scripture says,(1) can produce in the mind of a monk, and how "evil communications corrupt good manners."(2)
	www.coptnet.com /Fathers/34/v34p14.htm (4214 words)

	hermit's thatch: October 2006 Archives
		Interestingly, accidie turned his landlord into a recluse, not the other way around (the hermit suffering accidie).
		Certain physical disabilities had now been added to the malaise of which I had no precise knowledge, but interpreted as something like accidie, the monk's torpor or disease of the Middle Ages which was how his great security, his excessive worldly blessings, had taken him.
		The accidie had turned him into a recluse, accessible only to his intimate friends.
	www.hermitary.com /archives/2006_10.html (1274 words)

	accidie's progress on visit Italy again on 43 Things
		accidie in Boulder is doing 12 things including…
		accidie has written 1 entry about this goal
		accidie has gotten 2 cheers on this goal.
	www.43things.com /people/progress/accidie/78070 (233 words)

	The Walker, by Patrick O'Brian
		And without any knowledge I had been set there in my place for a long year past: oh, it was the sweetest realization in the world, this kindness done to me.
		"Clearly I knew it was not for the murder I had been sent: no, no; it was for accidie.
		another angle in this story that I really liked was when we're told that the "victims"' real sin was not the murder of another, but "accidie", which means despair, lack of hope; and it was for that they had to be killed by the angel of death the narrator considers himself to be;
	jfinnera.www1.50megs.com /Walker.htm (4702 words)

	Craving indulgence Spectator, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The sort of thing they were up against is shown in paintings popular in the 19th century of `The Temptations of St Antony'.
		Perhaps luxury should be put under Cassian's acedia - accidie or sloth, as it was called in mediaeval English.
		In our own century this vice has had its sting drawn, and Cassian's `noonday devil' has been reassigned to psychiatry as a species of depression.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200111/ai_n9017377 (884 words)

	.::Sloth::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sloth, also referred to as accidie, acedia, is described in Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” as the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind, and all one's soul.” There are many facets of sloth, including lethargy, fearfulness, lacking of creativity, smugness and capriciousness.
		One who is possesses the trait of sloth is considered to go against God, because one is putting off what God wants, or is not doing it at all.
		Sloth is linked with the goat and the color light blue.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall05/hope/sloth.htm (154 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter I. The transition from the ...
		For after the four books which have been composed on the customs of the monasteries, we now propose, being strengthened by God through your prayers, to approach the struggle against the eight principal faults, i.e.
		It is much to be regretted that the old English word “Accidie” has entirely dropped out of use.
		See “The Persone’s Tale,” where it is thus described: “After the sinne of wrath, now wol I speke of the sinne of accidie or slouth: for envie blindeth the herte of a man, and ire troubleth a man, and accidie maketh him hevy, thoughtful, and wrawe.
	www.sacred-texts.com /chr/ecf/211/2110374.htm (336 words)

	APPENDIX The Ariyavamsa Sutta Introduction There follows a translation which is based on t (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moreover, bhikkhus, possessing these Four Lineages of the Noble Ones, a bhikkhu may dwell in the East, or in the West, in the North or in the South, and in whatever place he dwells, accidie (boredom in matters spiritual) cannot overpower him, but he will overcome accidie.
		O bhikkhus, such a one is a steadfast sage who has overcome both accidie (with seclusion, quietness, etc., and with skilled mental states) and delight (in evil ones that arise while living in seclusion and practising meditation.
		That is, by the contentment plus humility taught in the first three Noble Lineages, the evil of accidie is overcome -- a truly contented mind is never bored; and by development, abandoning and humility taught in the fourth Noble Lineage, the bond of delighted attachment is broken).
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys5/appendix.htm (1165 words)

	OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS GAME GUIDE
		It has icons on one side and pictures of the artifacts on the other.) The game will be easier if you recognize the icons for some of the portals.
		If you hate taking notes, proceed immediately to the Hall of Accidie, then exit the game and give OLAD to a friend who doesn’t mind taking notes.
		Guitar, #25, accidie, Jimmy Ray, (Elvis impersonator), lawsuit apocalypse, p.
	www.gameboomers.com /wtcheats/pcOo/OLAD.htm (5175 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)