passions and activities of evil through which the soul is plundered and destroyed and made to desert to its own enemy. It is necessary, therefore, to stand by the soul like a wise pilot who never gives any thought to the disturbances of the unfavorable wind and is never distracted by the waves caused by it, but looks directly toward the harbor above and gives his soul wholeheartedly to the trusting and demanding God. For it is not the falling on one’s knees nor the placing of ourselves in an attitude