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Before the later masters of hesychasm wrote about the Jesus Prayer and prayer of the heart, the early ascetical Fathers mapped the inner life: attention and distraction, virtue and passion, grace and human freedom, repentance and purity, stillness and spiritual warfare. Enter the spiritual world of the Philokalia at its foundations. The Russian Philokalia: Dobrotolubie, Volume I gathers those foundational teachings in Saint Theophan the Recluse’s influential Russian arrangement and presents them in a complete new English translation. Five major witnesses to the ascetical tradition Saint Anthony the Great on renunciation, courage, sobriety, discernment, and the disciplined life, together with instructions and sayings preserved under his name.