Abba Pimen: “If a chest filled with a dress is left and the dress in it is not examined, then it will decay within a year. The same thing happens with thoughts: if we do not actually carry out what they suggest, then the thoughts themselves will decay and disappear within a year.” He again asked him the same thing. The father told him: “If someone collects snakes or scorpions, puts them in a vessel and seals them up, they will die within a year. Likewise, evil thoughts that vegetate from demons are destroyed by patience.” Source: St. Ignatius Bryanchaninov "Fatherland"
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru