Nikolai Berdyaev reminds us that Orthodox spirituality should never treated as a withdrawal from the world into ‘a sort of transcendental egoism, the unwillingness to share the suffering of the world and of man’:
Care for the life of another, even material bodily care, is spiritual in essence. Bread for myself is a material question : bread for my neighbour is a spiritual question.’ (The Fate of Modern Man in the Modern World, SCM Press, 1935, p. 123f.)
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