Arınmış Zihin ve Dikkati Dağılmayan Dua

On the signs of impassibility. When the mind begins to pray without distraction, then the entire war is joined, night and day, regarding the irascible part of the soul. A sign of lack of disturbance is a mind that begins to see its own radiance, remains calm at the specters of sleep, and looks upon things with composure. A robust mind is one that represents nothing of this world to itself during the time of prayer. A mind that has correctly cultivated the active life with the help of God, and has approached knowledge, feels the irrational part of the soul little or not at all, as knowledge snatches it upward and separates it from sensible things. A soul possesses freedom from distress not when it is unaffected by things, but when it remains undisturbed even at the memory of them. He who is perfect is not properly called continent, nor is he who lacks affection called tolerant; since tolerance belongs to the one who suffers, and continence to the one who is troubled. It is indeed a great thing to pray without distraction; but it is greater to chant without distraction.