Christian Orthodox theologian Metropolitan Kallistos on the Philokalia

“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware interviewed by Father Josiah Trenham, a conversation centered on the theologian's works with the Philokalia, a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters of the Christian Orthodox hesychast tradition.