Worthy of life

For the world is a very holy temple and most worthy of life; man is introduced into it by birth and there he does not contemplate statues made by the hand of man and deprived of movement, but the sensible realities which the divine Intellect has brought into being in imitation of the intelligible realities. Our life which is an absolutely perfect admission and initiation into these mysteries must be full of confidence and joy. But these feasts which are offered to us and in which divine intellect is the mystagogue are profaned if we spend the best part of our lives in lamentation, recriminations, and exhausting anxieties.