When our focus and attention rests on the material body alone we forget both the logos that is interior to that thing directing it to its fulfillment, and we forget the divine Logos in which it participates and that is leading it to its eternal well-being in God, because what has become most important is how that thing can be made to serve our end. A passionate embrace of the world, we could say, is invariably a superficial and a destructive looking at others because it does not see God’s love of