PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

St. Isaac the Syrian on the Humility of Spiritual Writing and the Fire It Seeks to Awaken “For by my own struggles I have not been vouchsafed to experience even one thousandth part of what I have written with my hands.” — St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 23 There is something almost unbearable in the humility of St. Isaac the Syrian. He has spoken of the highest mysteries of the spiritual life. He has described the purification of the heart, the stillness of the mind, the sweetne