“Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.

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I offer here the very words of Saint Gregory, worthy of the angelic mind, a few of many: “This Divine Virgin, … Therefore, the Most Pure One, renouncing, so to speak, everyday life and rumors, migrated from people, and avoiding a guilty life, chose a life invisible and uncommunicative to anyone, staying in non-entry. Here, having resolved all material union, and shaking off all communication and love for everything and surpassing the very condescension to the body, She gathered her whole mind into one communication and stay and attention with Him and into unceasing Divine prayer. And by her, being in herself and settling herself above the manifold rebellion and thought, and simply - of every kind and thing, She made a new and ineffable path to heaven, which is, I will say, mental silence.” (St. Gregory. Palamas).