“Repentance, which means an about-face in our mindset… which means, driving out all malice from our thoughts: wickedness, self-serving, cruelty, egotism and the like, which we tend to nurture and preserve with our own free will, in the deepest part of our being – our heart – where they cast darkness like heavy clouds inside our soul and our mind. But when the clouds dissipate, then will come the light!”
(Athanasios Rakovalis in online article ‘For Many Years’)