728 (FIRST VOICE OF OUR CONSCIENCE/ ATTENTION/ SOBERNESS/ ALERTNESS) Small but useful tips about attention: a. Pay attention: When you intend to do something, do not forget your objective, that is, what you have in mind to do. Otherwise, you will wander off on other “paths”…, wasting both your time and energy, and reaping the damage! (This is a general rule of thumb, which can also apply when you enter the web…)
Read our related post (in Greek), no. 020, here:
ΠΑΤΡΙΚΕΣ ΝΟΥΘΕΣΙΕΣ (001-100) b. Be careful: Always listen to the first voice that comes to you (and that is the one of your conscience!) This one is always ready to talk to you (as the first voice) and gently whisper to you, guarding you from the traps of the devil; which devil, being a latecomer, always comes later, as a late-second voice…, when you do not listen to the first voice (that of your conscience).
Listen on YouTube, our related Homily (in Greek) on conscience:
34 PHILOCALIA – CONSCIOUSNESS IS OUR BEST FRIEND – YouTube c. Be careful not to leave yourself suspended, “hanging” as we say; in mid-air and without programme… For, then, you will be caught in the “devil wind” going from here to there… d. Beware, be sober and alert… It helps if you ask yourself every now and then:
Now what am I doing? Now what should I do? (and follow the first voice that comes).