Vigilance is the affirmative and combative virtue that prevents us from forgetting or betraying the “one thing needful”: it is the presence of mind which ceaselessly calls us back to the remembrance of God, and which thereby keeps us attentive with regard to anything that might separate us from it. This virtue excludes all negligence and all carelessness – in little things as well as in big ones – since it is founded on awareness of the present moment of this ceaselessly renewed instant that belongs to God and not to the world, to Reality and not to dreaming. [GTUFS: EsoterismPW, The Virtues in the Way]