PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Blessed is the man who has attained the unknowing that is inseparable from prayer. No one comes to unknowing because he is brave. He comes because he stayed too long. He stayed when prayer was dull and humiliating. When the words tasted like dust. When the mind ran in circles and the heart offered nothing but resistance. He stayed when the rule felt pointless and the vigil felt like punishment and God felt absent. He did not stay because he understood anything. He stayed beca