PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Purification, Transformation, and the Recovery of Sonship “Whoever has seen himself is greater than he who has seen angels.” — St. Isaac the Syrian The Fathers did not go into the desert to become elders. They went into the desert to die. They fled the world because they had discovered that the greatest obstacle to union with God was not the world itself but the false self that had been constructed from pride, self-love, fear, and the ceaseless demand to preserve and justify