spiritual, carnal, intellectual

So I found an amazing quote the other day. Here it is in its entirety. I highlighted the phrases that caught my attention.

The intellectual and physical parts are in and of themselves sinless, and
natural to us; but the man who has been shaped by the intellectual, or even worse, by the carnal, is not sinless. He is guilty of granting supremacy within himself to something that was not meant for supremacy, and that is supposed to be in a subordinate position. It turns out that although the intellectual is natural, for a man to be intellectual is unnatural; in the same way carnality is natural, but for a man to be carnal is unnatural. The error here is in the exclusive predominance of that which is supposed to be subordinate.

When the spiritual reigns supreme in someone, then although this is his exclusive character and attitude, he does not err. This is because, in the first place, spirituality is the norm of human life, and so as a result, being spiritual, he is a real person, whereas the intellectual or carnal man is not a real person.

Secondly, no matter how spiritual someone is, he cannot help but give the intellectual and carnal their rightful place; he maintains just a little of them, in subordination to the spirit. Let intellectuality be not too broad within him (in scientific knowledge, arts and other subjects), and let carnality be firmly restrained. The connoisseur, the shrewd man - and even more so the carnal man - is not a real person, no matter how appealing he seems outwardly. He is foolish. Hence the simple man who fears God is superior to the man who is diverse and elegant, but who does not have among his goals and yearnings the pleasing of God....

From this you see that acccording to natural purpose, man must live in the spirit, subordinate everything to the spirit, be penetrated by the spirit in all that is of the soul, and even more so in all that is physical - and beyond these, in the outward things too, that is, family and social life. This is the norm!

-- Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894), Russian Orthodox monk and saint

To me, the point seems to be emphasis. What consumes our focus? If we could record each thought, and categorize them, what would we find is our focus? Do we squeeze God in, or does the relationship we have with Him define or alter the other things we do? Do we look at Him sometimes during the day, or do we have a pair of "Jesus glasses" that we never take off, that we use to interact with the world around us?

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