PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Why those who love God must learn to love not speaking “Silence is the mystery of the age to come, but words are instruments of this world.” St Isaac the Syrian Silence is not empty. It is not the absence of words. It is the presence of God pressing against the walls of the heart. Antiochos speaks like a man who has been burned by both fire and wind. He knows that words scatter us. Even good words. Even pious words. When the mouth is always moving the soul is always leaking.