Metropolitan Athanasios shares St. Paisios on a factory of good thoughts

The post quotes Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol recounting a teaching of St. Paisios. The elder spoke of making a factory that produces good thoughts: seeing evil and drawing good from it, seeing sin and not counting it as sin, seeing something blatantly wicked yet not becoming wicked oneself. He compared this to little children who witness many things but remain innocent and understand nothing.

By contrast, the wicked eye of an adult can look at innocent things and turn them into evil thoughts. St. Paisios said this condition is healed by prayer, by humility, and above all by listening when others explain the bad thoughts we hold, and by accepting it when we are told that things are not as we claim they are.