Those who desire to learn attentiveness must reject all empty activity in their lives. - Ignatius Bryanchaninov

If you think that you love God, but in your heart lives an unpleasant disposition toward even one person, you are grievously self-deluded.

Indulging sinful and vain desires always leads to obsession with them, and after the obsession comes slavery, which is death to everything spiritual. Those who allowed themselves to follow their desires and carnal mind became obsessed with them, enslaved by them, forgot God and eternity, and waster their earthly lives pointlessly, dying an eternal death.

The prince of this world tries to keep us in constant diversion, darkening us through the pleasures of the body!