He found a passage from the teaching of Blessed Nicephorus the Solitary22 and began to read: “ ‘If, after a few attempts, you are unable to enter into the place of the heart, as you were taught to do, then do what I tell you and, with God’s help, you will find what you seek. You know that each person has a larynx through which he exercises his faculty of speech. Banishing all thoughts (you can do this, if you want to), exercise this faculty and continually repeat the following: “Lord Jesus Christ,