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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: choose, a man partaketh of the light divine, and advanceth in the
practice of this philosophy in exact measure of his choice, for
there are differences of choice. And even as water-springs,
issuing from the hollows of the earth, sometimes gush forth from
the surface soil, and sometimes from a lower source, and at other
times from a great depth, and even as some of these waters bubble
forth continuously, and their taste is sweet, while others that
come from deep wells are brackish or sulphurous, even as some
pour forth in abundance while others flow drop by drop, thus,
understand thou, is it also with our choices. Some choices are
swift and exceeding fervent, others languid and cold: some have a
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