Abbot Haralambos Dionysiatis: Understand only the prayer

 As much as you can, my child, fall noetically with the fear of God, like the gypsy, at the feet of our Christ. And know this. You have come from the world. You are still carrying the world with you. The evil one will run through all the scenes of the world that you have inside you, all of them, like a tape in your mind. Continue to say the prayer. With perseverance, patience, and forcefulness. As much and you can, drive away whatever fantasy¹ is in your mind, whether it's good or bad. Compel yourself to understand only those five words of the prayer.

This is the first lesson, today. Let's see whether you have understood it.

+Abbot Haralambos Dionysiatis, from Abbot Haralambos Dionysiatis; The teacher of noetic prayer, Part 2, chapter A
¹ Fantasy is here understood as A mental image formed in the nous either by oneself or by the demons.