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812 (MIND/ SOBRIETY/ THOUGHTS (LOGISMOI)/ JESUS PRAYER/ SIMPLICITY/ CURIOSITY/ JUDGMENT)

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Happy and blessed is he who has the mind empty of thoughts (blank) and breathes only Christ by the Prayer in His name.

Remember also the command of Saint Paisios the Athonite to a Nun, who wanted to progress and to taste heavenly joys: “Move with simplicity, do not examine what others do and keep saying the Jesus Prayer”.

(OBSESSIONS/ THOUGHTS/ DEVIL/ LYING)

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Many a times, the devil – who is the biggest “psychopath” – puts thoughts or fixed ideas (obsessions) to us or creates an artificial problem in ourselves, trying to convince us that we do have a problem and a serious one for that matter. Whereas, in fact, it is a big lie and a non-existent problem. The Solution? IGNORE HIM! (both him and the so-called problems he presents to you as real).

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