Talking with Agnes

This was beautifully expressed by Karlfried von Durckheim. He said: when the devil is knock-ing at your door, do not resist. It is stronger. If you run away from it, it will catch you. It runs quicker than you. If you begin to argue or to justify or to try to win with intellectual arguments, you will find that it is more intelligent, and you lose in this way as well. What is the essence behind all his? It is attention. Attention is energy. What Durckheim concluded with was: just recognize the devil, but do not give him your attention; attention is the only thing he wants, and he will do all he can to get it.