“Materialism is a poor and lifeless substitute stemming from the lack of communion with God, a disease that characterizes the vast majority of today’s civilizations and cultures. But the person whose heart is full of the remembrance of God transcends the needs for trinkets and earthly pleasures; his body is on earth but his mind is more concerned about regaining lost paradise.”
(Archimandrite Athanasios Mitilinaio, instruction)

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