starets

The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey.

Father Sergius Leo Tolstoy 1869

Well, the starets tells him about the Jesus Prayer first of all.

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In choosing a starets you renounce your own will and surrender it to him in perfect submission, absolute self-abnegation. '

The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe Crankshaw, Edward 1982

Dostoevsky insists that the institution of the starets in imperial Russia came from the East, 'the practice of a thousand years.'

The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe Crankshaw, Edward 1982

Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov is writing about that familiar figure of the old Russia, the starets, or holy man: 'A starets takes your soul, your will, into his soul and will.

The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe Crankshaw, Edward 1982

He wished to refuse but the starets ordered him to accept the appointment.

Father Sergius Leo Tolstoy 1869

This was the result of his consciousness of humility, and the certainty that whatever he had to do, being fixed by the starets, was right.

Father Sergius Leo Tolstoy 1869

He did so, and took leave of the starets and moved to the other monastery.

Father Sergius Leo Tolstoy 1869

This Superior had been a disciple of the starets Ambrose, who was a disciple of Makarius, who was a disciple of the starets Leonid, who was a disciple of Paussy Velichkovsky.

Father Sergius Leo Tolstoy 1869

Sergius obeyed the starets, showed his letter to the Abbot, and having obtained his permission, gave up his cell, handed all his possessions over to the monastery, and set out for the Tambov hermitage.

Father Sergius Leo Tolstoy 1869