“Using his gift of clairvoyance the elder related various facts about the man’s own life to him and he advised him to get a job even if he didn’t need one…the work would do him good. Impressed by the elder’s spiritual gifts the man asked him about meditation and other spiritual techniques. “Techniques don’t matter at all. You’re trying but for yo’ure digging bears no gold; there’s just the devil. The gold is Christ.””
Elder Paisios
~Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos