"Filled with centuries of wisdom.... Wonderfully explains and simplifies this difficult [text]."—Religious Book Club "An invaluable treasury of wisdom…. Offers a simple guide to the way (through one's heart) and means (through prayer) of arriving from the spiritual starting-point (of repentance in the heart) to the wonderful destination (of stillness and salvation) found in the love of divine beauty."—John Chryssavgis, author of Light through Darkness: The Orthodox Tradition “Successfully acquaints the reader with [the Philokalia's] origins, context, import and influence.”—American Vedantist“Fully accessible to professional theologians, lay Christians and spiritualists alike. An invaluable addition to spirituality and Christian literature shelves.”—Midwest Book Review “Like water in the desert … invites us not only to go deeper into the life of prayer but takes us off the treadmill of endless self-invention. A clearly and beautifully annotated text that will make the Philokalia accessible to a new generation of readers. A gift for our time.”—Fr. Alan Jones, dean, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; author of Soul Making and The Soul’s Journey “[An] authoritative resource…. Will go far toward making one of the great treasures of Eastern Christian spirituality accessible to followers of Christ in the West.”—Frederica Mathewes-Green, author of The Illumined Heart and Facing East “Eastern Orthodox Christian teachings on prayer, watchfulness and stillness have much to say to the Quaker tradition.”—Quaker Life
