There I am, where my thought is: and there oftentimes is my thought, where that is which I love.
That thing most readily comes to my mind, which naturally delights me, or which through custom is pleasing to me.
6. For this reason thou, who art the truth, hast plainly said, Where thy treasure is, there also is thy heart. Matthew vi.
If I love heaven, I willingly think of heavenly things.
If I love the world, I rejoice in the prosperity of the world, and am troubled at its adversity.
If I love the flesh, my imagination is often taken up with the things of the flesh.
If I love the spirit, I delight to think of spiritual things.
For whatsoever things I love, of the same I willingly speak and hear, and carry home with me the images of them.
But blessed is the man, who for thee, O Lord, lets go all things created: who offers violence to his nature; and through fervour of spirit crucifies the lusts of the flesh: that so his conscience being cleared up, he may offer to thee pure prayer, and may be worthy to be admitted, among the choirs of angels, having shut out all things of the earth both from without and within.