Cap 20. How to overcome negligence . From Unseen Warfare by St Nicodemus of the holy mountain and St Theophan the Recluse .

How to overcome negligence To avoid falling into the pernicious evil of negligence, which will stop your progress towards perfection and deliver you into the hands of the enemies, you must flee all kinds of inquisitiveness (trying to find out what’s here, or what’s there, idle wandering, empty chatter, gaping around), any kind of cleaving […]