Description Speech of the Great Basil to “Take care of yourself” Take care of yourself, that is, neither yours nor those around you, but only yourself. Pay no attention to the flesh, nor seek after beauty and sensual pleasures, money, glory or power. Take care of yourself, your soul. Take care of her and adorn her, and by your careful way of life free her from every dirty contamination. Know your nature. Your body is mortal, but your soul is immortal. Take heed to thyself, and do not cling to mortals as if they were eternal, nor dismiss the eternal as transitory. He studied the construction of the body, and marveled at how suitable a habitation God the master craftsman had made for the rational soul. Take care, therefore, of yourself, that you may take care of God.
