One day a maiden came to an old man and said:
— Abba, I spend six weeks in fasting and study the Old and New Testaments every day.
The elder replied:
—Has poverty become the same to you as abundance?
- No.
- Dishonor - how is praise?
- No.
- Are enemies like friends?
- No.
“Then,” says the wise old man, “go and work, you have nothing.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru