Elder Ephraim on the Presence of God
‘A nous [which is the eye of the heart] which has ceased to contemplate God becomes either carnal or savage’ (St. Mark the Ascetic.) In other words, when the mind of man strays from the various ways of contemplating God—that is, praying meditating on spiritual contemplations such as hell, paradise, one’s sins, one’s passions, the countless benefactions of the Lord which He bestows upon each of us in a wondrous manner, and so forth—then the evil demons come and fill him with their own contemplations which lead him into the mire of carnal, passionate sins, or into the sins of wrath and anger.
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