Pior

Abba Pior was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

Quotes

Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4. 

• Abba Pior he used to eat walking around.
  When somebody enquired: “Why do you eat like that?”
  he said: “I do not want to treat food as work, but as incidental.”
  To somebody else who had asked about it he replied: “It is so that my soul may not experience any physical pleasure even when I am eating.”
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