“Unfortunately, in our day, words and books have multiplied and experiences have diminished, because the worldly spirit, which pursues all conveniences and avoids all bodily effort, influences people. Most of us find rest in much reading but little or no implementation. We simply marvel at the holy athletes of our Church without realizing how much they’ve labored, for we have not toiled so as to be able to understand their toil, to love them and to struggle out of philotimo [Christ-like worldview] in order to imitate them.  Those, however, who struggle with philotimo and do not give themselves rest, removing their ego from every one of their actions, help very positively. For, only then are the souls in need of help given rest, and only then will their own souls find inner rest, in this life as well as in eternity.”
– ‘Epistles’