The Soul Abundant

Ἐγω δὲ εἶπα ἐν τῇ εὐθηνίᾷ μου· Οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Ὥωπερ πόλεώς ἐστιν εὐθηνία ἡ τῶν ὠνίων κατ' ἀγορὰν ἀφθονία, καὶ χώραν εὐθηνεῖσθαι λέγομεν τὴν πολλοὺς εὐφορήσασαν τοὺς καρπούς· οὕτω καὶ τῆς ψυχῆς τίς ἐστιν εὐθηνία τῆς πεπληρωμένης παντοδαπῶν ἔργων· ἣν πρῶτον μὲν γεωργηθῆναι δεῖ φιλοπόνως, καὶ τότε ταῖς ἀφθόνοις τῶν οὐρανίων ὑδάτων ἐπιῥῥοίαις πιανθῆναι, ὥστε καρποφορῆσαι ἐν τριάκοντα, καὶ ἐν ἔξήκοντα, καὶ ἐν ἐκατὸν, καὶ τυχεῖν τῆς εὐλογίας τῆς λεγούσης· Εὐλογημέναι αἱ ἀποθῆκαι σου, καὶ τὰ εγκαταλείμματα σου. Ὁ οὖν αἰσθανόμενος τῆς ἑαυτοῦ βεβαιότητος, πεποιθότως ἐρεῖ, καὶ διαβεβαιώσεται μὴ περιτραπῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀνταγωνιζομένου, ὡς ἀργὸς πλήρης, ὄν εὐλόγησεν ὁ Κύριος Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας, Ὁμιλία Ἐις Τους Ψαλμούς, Εἰς Τον ΚΘ' Ψαλμον  Source: Migne PG 29.316b

And I said in my abundance, I shall never be shaken... 1 As we name a city abundant on account of the goods offered for sale in its market, and a land also because of its yield of many fruits, so there is an abundance of the soul when it is full with every sort of work, which first indeed is farmed with much toil and then watered for fertility by the waters of heaven, that it produce fruit thirty fold, and sixty fold, and a hundredfold 2 and there by each thing comes that blessing saying, 'Blessed your granaries and your barns.' 3 He, then, who is aware of his constancy, may confidently say, and maintain it strongly, that he shall not be overthrown by the adversary, like a field in fullness which the Lord has blessed. Saint Basil of Caesarea, Homilies on the Psalms, from Psalm 29 1 Ps 29.7 2 Mt 13.8 3 Deut 28.5