... if we are vexed by injuries and delight in pleasure and riches, what a loss! What ignorance, what darkness! By what misery and obtuseness we are swayed and dragged down to things of earth! In truth we are objects of pity, totally wretched, alien to eternal life itself and to the kingdom of heaven! Such are we when we no longer possess Christ in ourselves, but have the world alive in us just as we are living in it, and have "our minds set on earthly things" (Phil. 3:19; Col. 3:2).
("Symeon the New Theologian: The Discourses", p. 55)
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