Be kind and never reveal anything. If you will reveal your feelings you will uncover your heart allowing the enemy to steal your spiritual treasure. Guard your precious treasure locked in a chest.

The pearls and brilliants don’t lay just anywhere, but are carefully guarded.

Oh, much more valuable, bright and pure are the pearls of prayer and the spiritual brilliants! How clean and pure! How bright they shine! As a brilliant, the name of Jesus Christ in our heart does not go out if it will be lit by love. As a pearl, he adorns the spiritual serenity of the soul, if you will watch the prayer.

(Translated from Sfântul Inochentie al Penzei, Viața care duce la Cer, traducere de Adrian Tănăsescu-Vlas, Editura Sophia, București, 2012, p. 125)