Mother Natalia

I told someone one time that I was reading my Elder Joseph the Hesychast, because that's what the book is called, My Elder Joseph the Hesychast, and they were very confused and thought I had an elder named Joseph.

Yeah, and I don't even have anything really to add to this quote, because I feel like it's just what we've already been saying.

But I would agree with you.

I mean, we are all called to pray without ceasing.

That's been made clear.

Good point.

But I don't think that this is the only way to do that.

And I do think that we need to be attentive to, again, the Holy Spirit is dwelling within us, and we need to be attentive to His movement within us.

to what we are being called

to enact in our own lives.

Because it might even be that, sure, this is something that the Lord wants you to receive and focus on, but maybe not right now.

And when we become so fixated on, this is the thing I want to do, this is the thing that I think I need to do to be holy, and we're so fixated on that, even if it's not working, that we're totally missing what the Lord wants to do.

So do be attentive to what's happening within you.

You know, like,

the disciples on the way to Emmaus recognized the Lord and said, we're not our hearts burning within us.

So like, if you're listening to this, you're listening to this about the Jesus prayer and your heart is burning within you and you're like, I want this, then listen to that.

But if it's not, then listen to that.

I've heard both ways.

Yeah, I'll give a few different options.

One is you could say, I'm just going to pray...