The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.