БЕСЕДА С ЮНЫМИ
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Is it permissible to talk freely with young people about any subject or not?
One day Abba Ammon came to Abba Pimen and asked him: if I come to my brother’s cell or he comes to me for some need, is it permissible to talk freely with him about all subjects? Avva Pimen answered: I do not approve of such behavior, because youth needs self-protection. Abba Amon said to this: what did the elders do in such cases? Abba Pimen answered: the elders, being in prosperity, do not need such self-protection: they, not having anything alien in their hearts, do not have it in their mouths either.