Examples and images from the Ladder

• Just as it is impossible for the dead to walk, so it is impossible for the despairing to be saved.

• He who says he loves the Lord and simultaneously gets angry at his brother is like one who runs in his sleep.

Let us explore, through a collection of examples and images from the Ladder, the pathways of the mind and the soul as recorded by the holy John of Sinai at the foot of Sinai centuries ago, in a way that even the most modern psychologist would envy today.