ON THOUGHTS. ARCHPRIEST SERGIY BARANOV

QUESTION: How should we recognize the moment when we start to agree with thoughts and accept them? I would not like to let impurity into my heart. ANSWER: You pay too much attention to it, strain and break yourself down in advance. To an extent, you produce these situations psychologically. You should try to let them go. Let them make noise around you, meanwhile, you will drag your attention to Christ and be patient. When you are obsessed about this issue, you help the demons with your fervor and anticipation. You open the door for them. Do not get tense, but relax and be patient for a while instead. You should not endure them the way you do: wait for them and then endure them. Try not to pay your attention, nor open your heart to them, to any extent. You should confess your thoughts, but only those, which are obsessive, or those you have mixed up in or accepted, but not all the nonsense you have in your mind. You will become insane, if you evaluate, control and bring every thought to your spiritua