It is very rare to find people whose intelligence is in a state of stillness.

- #PhilotheosofSinai, ‘The #Philokalia’

The core of the work lies in concentrating the #attention and the standing before the invisible Lord, not in the head but in the chest, close to the heart and in the heart."

- #Philokalia

"To stand guard over the heart, to stand with the mind in the heart, to descend from the head to the heart—all these are one and the same thing.

- #Philokalia

Speaking generally, it is impossible to acquire virtue in any other way, except through this kind of #attention."

- #SymeontheNewTheologian, 'The Three Ways of Attention and #Prayer,' as found in the ' #Philokalia'

House finch on a mesquite.
Philokalia is the ability to find beauty in insignificant things.
#philokalia #finch #birds #fauna #nature

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From ‘On Guarding the #Nous,’ in the #Philokalia

It is very rare to find people whose intelligence is in a state of stillness.

- Philotheos of Sinai, ‘The #Philokalia’

God spiritually indwells the intellect that receives Him, as the intellect in its turn lays hold upon God. Thus the intellect clearly perceives the truth of Paul’s words, ‘He who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit with Him’ (1 Cor. 6:17).

#Philokalia

For the first time in English: a sermon by the Hesychast Patriarch of Constantinople, Kallistos I

Kallistos, known from his Chapters on Prayer in the #Philokalia, was a disciple of St Gregory of Sinai and an important supporter of St Gregory Palamas

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