In one village there lived a young man. All day long he sat at home and did nothing. One day he asked his mother: “How can I find my happiness?” “Go out, son, into an open field, what you catch will be your happiness,” she answered. A young man went out into the field and saw a foal running. He rushed to catch up, but didn’t catch up. A hare jumped out from under a bush. He rushed to catch him, but didn’t catch him. He saw a dove flying, he ran after her, but wherever he went. Flew away. The young man looks - a crow is walking across the field, looking for worms. Having nothing else to do, I reached out to her with my hand and caught her. “Really,” he asks the crow, “are you my happiness?” “No,” the crow answers. - how lucky I am. And I can tell you how to catch happiness.” - "How?" - asks the young man. “Take some fragrant hay, put it near the yard, the foal will come eat the hay and stay with you. Take some sweet carrots and put them under the fence. A hare will come running, see a carrot, and it will become tame. Scatter wheat grains around the yard - a dove will fly and settle under the roof.” - “Is this happiness?” – the young man was surprised. “And happiness will come later. When a kind and beautiful girl passes by the yard and sees you feeding a foal, a hare and a dove, she will fall in love with you and marry you.” “...The Kingdom of God will not come visibly, and they will not say: Behold, it is here, or, Behold, there...” (Luke 17:20). monk Simeon of Athos Mysterious conversations or hidden truths
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