Письмо 185
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Why and why there is unworldliness with N.N., I don’t know anything, I haven’t heard a word about you from them; but from everything it is clear that you are driven by self-thinking, and you suffer from it. If they do not want to have communication with you, then do not seek it; you need to love everyone and run with everyone. For your diligence in working something for our church, I thank you; But we have enough of everything and it will be a sin for excess: but it’s better to sell what you work and use it for yourself, or for the poor.
I don’t have a new book that I could send. Read spiritual books; we can always find something new for our spiritual edification; for just as the body requires food, so the soul requires spiritual food. Having read some secular book, you don’t even want to pick it up another time, but no matter how much you read a spiritual book, everything in it is new and nourishing for our soul. The sinful hieromonk Macarius. September 2, 1855.
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