Saint Paisius: “For anything to not have anxiety …”

The stress is of the devil. When you see anxiety, you should know that there has put the tail of the ταγκαλάκι. The devil doesn’t goes against. If there is a trend, pushes, and he, to trouble and to deceive the man.
Sensitive l.x. makes him hypersensitive. When you’re in the mood to do penance, pushes the devil to do more than your strength and, if your powers are limited, it creates a nervousness, because you can’t handle it, and then you have a lot of stress with a slight desperation in the first place and then continues…
I remember, when I was a novice monk for a while, just went to sleep, he told me the temptation: “are you Sleeping? Get up! So many people suffer, so many are in need…” get Up and do prostrations, what I could. I just went to sleep, began again: “The others are suffering while you sleep? Get up!”
Up again. Until I arrived to say: “Ah, my cut feet, what fun! Would I then be justified, since I couldn’t do regrets”.
A Great Lent I took it off, barely, because I was going to push myself more than my stamina.
When we feel in our fight anxiety, to know that we are not moving in the space of God. God is not a tyrant to drown in it.