Elder Gavriel Agioreitis.
Self-sufficiency???!!!
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"If you have 10,000 fields to cultivate,
again a plate of food you will eat to fill up...
If you have 1000 rooms in your house,
every night to sleep you only need 2 meters...
If you have wealth countless lands,
when you leave this life,
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All the rest is for the pleasure of our eyes,
of our senses ... of our ego!
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Self-sufficiency is a quality we must cultivate within ourselves.
It is not the excuse of those who have not,
but virtue restraining vanity.
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Self-sufficiency that is the greatest wealth,
and the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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With the above thoughts let's try to release
ourselves from the futility of matter,
and from the passion of greed.
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I hope one day we can taste this fruit of freedom,
since until now we are probably followers of vanity...
Bound by technology, benefits, convenience, search. . .
How much longer will we feel inadequate in an environment
offers of all kinds?
Are the senses so insatiable after all? . . .
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Good luck to every traveler and traveler of life,
even if we don't live with illusions. . .
on this earth, we will not live forever.
Our homeland is Heaven, and to Her we march. . .
Let's be content with the essentials, and all the rest will be provided by the Lord.
