Tears represent signs of the state of the soul. Just as there are many stages of the spiritual life and states experienced under the influence of grace or of the passions, so there are many kinds of tears. The Syriac Fathers do not speak systematically about spiritual weeping and tears. However, what we attempt to do in this paper is to illustrate tears as features of spiritual life of the monk, a major attention being given to their provenance and role, based on the brief naratives we collect from some compositions of Syriac mystics and church fathers.
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