The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
This world is like a shiny chimera in its entirety, but in part it is only sorrow; bravery of a giant in its entirety and fear of a mouse in part; undefeatable progress of life in its entirety and hopeless death in part.
All this shiny chimera can`t satiate any eye or ear and even less it can satiate the thirst of the physical desires.
The least of all it can satiate the spiritual thirst. As a water drop falls on the burnt tongue of the thirsty traveler and doesn`t appease him, this entire cosmos – a hot drop – falls on the thirsty soul of the man and doesn`t appease him but makes him much thirstier increasing his thirst till madness.
The world indeed is made only to arouse thirst in the man but no to appease it.
Excerpt from Thoughts about good and evil – Saint Nicholas Velimirovich, Predania Publishing.
