Experience as Guidance

“Let them take courage who are humbled by their passions. For even if they fall into every pit and are caught in every snare, when they attain health they will become healers, luminaries, beacons and guides to all, teaching about the forms of every sickness and through their own experience saving those who are about to fall.”- St. John Climacus, (580-650 A.D)., The Ladder of Divine Ascent