Every moment of the day the evil inclination attempts to overpower us.  It fans the desires, even if we refuse to pay attention to it and look determinedly in the other direction.  Still it comes back and bites us again, a third time, a fourth and more.  We must stay firm and obstinate.  We must be absolutely determined that under no circumstances will we turn our attention to toward the evil inclination.  In the end it will be lifted from us and it will totally disappear.  The same is true of the irrelevant thoughts which persist in coming to confuse us when we are trying to pray.  The same thought comes into mind over and over again.  What we need is firmness.  Pay no attention to the thought whatsoever. ~ R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l