As soon as you wake up in the morning, pray for a while, saying: *‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.’* Then your first work should be to shut yourself in your own heart, as if taking up position in an arena.
Having established yourself there, bring yourself to the consciousness and feeling that your enemy and the passionate urge against which you struggle at the moment is already there, on your left, ready for immediate attack; therefore rouse against them a firm resolve to conquer or die, *but never to submit.*
- Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite
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