Aleksandr Dmitrievich Schmemann. (№ 448746)

A terrible mistake of modern man: identification of life with action, thought, etc., and already almost complete inability to live, that is, to feel, perceive, "live" life as a non-stop gift. Going to the station under a fine, already spring rain, seeing, feeling, realizing the movement of a sunbeam along the wall - this is not only an "also" event, this is the very reality of life. Not a condition for action and thought, not their indifferent background, but that, in essence, for the sake of which (so that it is, felt, “lived”) and it is worth acting and thinking. And this is so because it is only in this that God gives us to feel Himself, and not in action and not in thought.