Happiness lies within your own self, and blessed is the man who understood
this. Examine your heart and see its spiritual state. Has your heart lost
confidence in God? Does your conscience complain of transgression of His
commandments? Does it accuse you of unrighteousness, of lying, of
neglecting duties to God and neighbor? Investigate whether vices and
passions have filled your heart, whether it has slipped into crooked and hard
paths.
Saint Nektarios Pentapolis
Translated by Dr. Nick Stergiou
