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Pondering Tidbits of Truth
is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for
you to chew on from time to time.
Saint Theophan the Recluse
When your mind does wander during prayer, bring it back. When it
wanders again, bring it back again. Each and every time that you read a
prayer while your thoughts are wandering (and consequently you read it
without attention and feeling,) then do not fail to read it again. Even
if your mind wanders several times in the same place, read it again and
again until you read it all the way through with understanding and
feeling. In this way, you will overcome this difficulty so that the next
time, perhaps, it will not come up again, or if it does return, it will
be weaker.
(From Homily I Beginning to Pray)
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