Spiritual poverty.

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Spiritual poverty in the Gospel is called humility, a quality so important that one of the spirit-bearing fathers once said: "We know many, very different saints, but none among them who would not be humble."

Humility is unanimously and unequivocally called by the holy fathers as the main condition and even the basis of salvation. And the main and, what is surprising, the easiest way to salvation, because humility, according to the parents themselves, can not only compensate, but also replaces many feats and corporal works.

The greatest deeds and humble works lose their spiritual significance and make a person the most unhappy person in the world.

One thing that we are left with, weak and sinful, is to sincerely repent of our weaknesses and our hearts, it is not hypocritical to humble ourselves before God and people and patiently endure the various sorrows and diseases that send us for sins, and thus without a doubt we can receive the mercy of God.

Spiritual poverty presupposes the deepest awareness of one's weakness before God, weakness, however, in a surprising way that does not humiliate a person, but opens up the possibility of an incomprehensible and vivid fullness of life. Only this brightness and completeness is not at all what is generally accepted in our country to be considered brightness and integrity in a Philistine sense.

It is thought, in part by our lack of faith, by the inconstancy and the relaxation, because we are not aspired to the Lord with all our hearts and souls. Because we believe that happiness is in the achievement of earthly pleasures, while, by exceeding the appropriate measure, they cause damage to the soul.

"The soul, which whitens the body, is overshadowed by pleasure and dies" (Dob. T.1, 95).

So immersion in carnal life completely destroys the memory of spiritual life.