‘Something to Sleep On’
“Just as it is impossible to fight battles without weapons, or to swim a great sea with clothes on, or to live without breathing, so without humility and constant prayer to Christ it is impossible to master the art of inward spiritual warfare or to set about it and pursue it skilfully.”
Hesychios the Priest: On Watchfulness and Holiness, 99
From http://www.monachos.net/content/patristics/studies-fathers/64-hesychios-the-priest-on-personal-holiness
