A Question on the Wandering Mind and Its Enemies

Perhaps this tendency of the mind to wander could be checked to some extent, were it not that so great a swarm of enemies surrounds it and ceaselessly pushes it toward what it does not want, or rather toward where the wandering character of its own nature drives it. And since such countless enemies, so powerful and so terrible, surround it, we would not imagine that they could be withstood, especially by this weak flesh of ours, were we not encouraged to think so by your words, as if by oracles from heaven.