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Not nice for you!translated

August 1, 2026 · 1 min read

It's not cool for you to only contact people when you need them. Because it shows that your relationship with them is self-interested. And that should worry you...

By Fr. Andreas Agathokleous

Not because of what the other will say about you, but because the self-interested person is deep down self-centered, and the self-centered person remains alone, without fulfillment, without society, and therefore he is dead and let him appear alive.

It is not nice for you not to have your hours of solitude, where you will study, you will pray, you will see the world inside you that is drowning in constant extroversion and superficial sociability. Because these hours reconstruct you and lead you to spiritual maturity, that is why they are painful.

It is not nice for you to constantly look behind you, reminiscing about the good yesterday or agonizing over your failures and mistakes. Because neither the good ones exist anymore, nor the bad ones. Both, however, as much as you don't understand it, they prepared it now. After all, the now has the wisdom that came from them, being in another age and another era. The past cannot be judged by today's criteria.

It is not nice for you to pray only when you are in…

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