Saint Paisios on letting troubling thoughts pass like airplanes

The post shares a teaching from Saint Paisios the Athonite comparing thoughts to airplanes flying overhead. The saint explains that thoughts will come, but we do not need to give them a place to land in our minds. When a troubling thought appears, the advice is not to argue with it or keep turning it over, but to let it pass and turn the mind to the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me."

The image includes Greek text with the same analogy: thoughts are like airplanes, and paying attention to them creates an airport in the head where they can land. The post encourages sending this to someone who overthinks and ends with a request for Saint Paisios's prayers.