"A brother asked an elder, “What is hēsychia and what good does it do?”"

""When you pray", it has been wisely said by an Orthodox writer in Finland, "you yourself must be silent... You yourse…"

"Given all the ways – both explicit and subtle – in which hesychasm is profoundly embroidered into the fabric of conte…"

"Through hesychasm ... different parts of the Byzantine Empire were linked with each other and to its centre. In a way…"

"Hesychasm, which is too often looked upon as a philosophico-mystical “curiosity” of purely historical interest, has i…"

"Hadji-Georgis had had profuse, guileless love for everyone. He had always been peaceful, long-suffering, and forgivin…"

"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did loo…"

"Yet even among theologians we note here and there a skeptical spirit in natural science. Early in the same seventeent…"

"Every today is at the same time both a cradle and a shroud: a shroud for yesterday, a cradle for tomorrow. Today, yes…"

"Irene: Hello, Archie! Archie: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Irene: I bet that means, "Who needs her around on my day off?" Edith:…"