acedia

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apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

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According to St. Thomas Aquinas, acedia is a kind of sadness about things that are spiritual goods, or a “disgust with activity.” Source: Internet

Emotionally and cognitively, the evil of acedia finds expression in a lack of any feeling for the world, for the people in it, or for the self. Source: Internet

Dante describes acedia as the failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul; to him it was the middle sin, the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love. Source: Internet

“I'd say if there is almost a lack of desire to do anything in life, that's probably a good sign that it's deeper than acedia and that it perhaps needs medical attention,” Ayre said. Source: Internet

“I’d say if there is almost a lack of desire to do anything in life, that’s probably a good sign that it’s deeper than acedia and that it perhaps needs medical attention,” Ayre said. Source: Internet

If you're reading this article because you're distracting yourself from something that needs to be done, you might be struggling with something called acedia. Source: Internet

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