a Kempis Quote

"You must not be disturbed, then, by fancies foreign to your real self, whatever it may be that causes them. Keep bravely to your resolutions, hold on to your good intent towards God. It is no illusion if sometimes you are suddenly caught up in ecstasy and immediately return to the usual frivolous thoughts that crowd your heart. Such thoughts you put up with rather than encourage, and so long as you find them distasteful and struggle against them , you may count them as gain and not as loss" (a Kempis, Imitaiton bk.iii).