Thus you will discover that the mind’s wings sprout up in the womb of chastity

And it is by love that a man ventures noetically to approach the dark cloud. | This insight will give a man much power to mingle watchfulness with his affairs | and at the same time it will furnish him with the incentives of encouragement. | Discipline practised without eyes is done in vain | for it easily brings on despondency on account of distraction. | Pray that you may acquire [vigilant] eyes in everything you do. | From these things joy will begin to gush forth in you | and then you will find tribulations to be sweeter than honey | and your mandra to be a wedding chamber. | Homily 34, p. 282-3