“The demon of despondency acts like any beast of prey: if you run away from it, leaving the business you were involved in, it attacks with double ferocity from behind. Therefore, the ancient monks advised: ‘Sit in your cell: your cell will teach you everything.’ We will not succumb to the temptation to leave our place of spiritual struggle, our place of assignment in the spiritual war. The demon is only waiting for this.”
(Fr. Pavel Sergeants , article in Orthodox Canada Journal 2020)