Our helmsman, the mind, sometimes loses his way and takes our whole life along with him down the wrong path. - Ignatius Bryanchaninov

He who has felt spiritual love will only despise carnal love, seeing it for the unsightly parody of love that it is.

All the saints assiduously avoided distraction. Constantly, or at the very least as often as possible, they concentrated their thoughts within themselves, paying attention to every movement of the mind and heart, directing these according to the commands of the Gospels.

Try to integrate the Gospel into your mind and heart so that your mind will in a manner of speaking, swim in it, live in it. Then your every action will truly become evangelical.