PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

A Geography of the Heart According to St. Isaac the Syrian Synopsis of Tonight's Group on The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian Homily 6 paragraphs 7 and 8: Here St. Isaac does not define virtues as behaviors but as states of being before God . He strips away external markers and leaves the soul alone with truth. What he offers is not a ladder of accomplishments but a geography of the heart. A stranger, he says, is not one who has left a place, but one whose mind has