"What is the spiritual battle? Well, the soul is a garden divided into two parts. On one half are planted thorny bushe…"

"From the moment I became a monk I believed that death does not exist. That’s how I felt and how I always feel – that …"

"Pray without forming images in your mind. Don’t try to imagine Christ. The Fathers emphasized the need for prayer to …"

"Prayer should be interior, prayed with the mind and not with the lips, so as not to cause distraction with the mind w…"

"God is everywhere present and fills all things. I try to take wings to infinity and fly amidst the stars. My mind is …"

"In prayer what is important is not the duration but the intensity. Pray albeit for five minutes, but abandoning yours…"

"Prayer is beneficial for everything, even for the simplest of things. For example, if you are suffering from insomnia…"

"Make the most of beautiful moments. Beautiful moments predispose the soul to prayer; they make it refined, noble and …"

"Observe all the things made by man – houses, buildings large or small, towns, villages, peoples and their civilizatio…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"