Once, Socrates saw in the marketplace many things that were displayed for sale. Do you know what was his comment? He said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How many are the things I can do without\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Philosophers! Contentment is a treasure. Not too long ago, many of us were living a life of greed. For young and old, life consisted in how one achieves material success, how one acquires what he desires. Today, our situation has differed, it differed a lot. Poverty has increased on earth. Most people have absolutely become \u00e2\u20ac\u0153philosophers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d! Can we preserve something out of what has occurred? Contentment is not (merely) a moral attitude. It is a position from the world, an acceptance of the fact that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the form of this world is passing away\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (1 Corinthians 7:31). It is an expected wisdom that we emerge from this crisis to a perfect conviction that there is something which is greater than the world. Shall we build, on earth, that we are in a journey to eternity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once, Socrates saw in the marketplace many things that were displayed for sale. Do you know what was his comment? He said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How many are the things I can do without\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Philosophers! Contentment is a treasure. Not too long ago, many of us were living a life of greed. For young and old, life consisted ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}