I wish I could! The problem is that most of those little gems come up in a counseling/pedagogy sort of context. I don't know of a comprehensive guidebook, I just had a good catechist. Orthodoxy was born into a Greek world: they had the Greek understanding of the mind as a jumping-off point, so it's not all that surprising. Poking around... you can find interesting bits and pieces by looking up "orthodox christian" plus "nous" or "dianoia" or "noetic". "Paisius on thoughts" is always a fun (and infuriating to modern sensibilities) romp. He says things like:
"Today I observe that even with great matters, when someone asks, before he has even had the time to complete his question, we interrupt him and answer him. This shows that not only do we not seek enlightenment from the Grace of God, but we do not even judge with the reason God gave us. On the contrary, whatever our thoughts suggest to us, immediately, without hesitation, we trust it and consent to it, often with disastrous results.
"Almost all of us view thoughts as being something simple and natural, and that is why we naively trust them. However, we should neither trust them nor accept them.
"Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!"
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Date: 2021-03-10 09:27 pm (UTC)"Today I observe that even with great matters, when someone asks, before he has even had the time to complete his question, we interrupt him and answer him. This shows that not only do we not seek enlightenment from the Grace of God, but we do not even judge with the reason God gave us. On the contrary, whatever our thoughts suggest to us, immediately, without hesitation, we trust it and consent to it, often with disastrous results.
"Almost all of us view thoughts as being something simple and natural, and that is why we naively trust them. However, we should neither trust them nor accept them.
"Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!"