PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

When Even the Desire to Do Something for God Must Become Still “And this is the definition of stillness, silence to all things.” — St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 21 There are desires that arise from restlessness, and there are desires that arise only after restlessness has begun to die. For many years I thought of the spiritual life largely in terms of movement: what must be done, what must be offered, where one must go, what form one’s fidelity must take. Even the deepest desi