Elder Gavriel Agioreitis. Self-sufficiency???!!!

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,

 two meters of land is enough to accommodate you!  ... ».

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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.