“The spirit within us seeks for that which is eternal and true; when we lose sight of our desire to please God, and we become negligent in cultivating our love for the Lord, we open ourselves up to the spirit of boredom, that doorway to deathly despondency. We then begin looking outside ourselves for something more fulfilling to do, something that will make us ‘happy’.”
(Newsletter of St Paisius Monastery in Arizona)