In the prayer is the fullness of life, the living force, unhypocritical expression of love, primeval need for belonging. Through the prayer, before the fall, Adam always communicated with God, and after the fall, with effort and torment it returns into our hearts. With great effort the prayer is received, and with it the grace that is a teacher of all virtues, a window to all knowledge, light of all lights. With the grace one knows what is known, with it one sees and with it one lives. By the grace of the Holy Spirit we can and we know how. And in the ultimate sense, with it and only with it one can recognize God as one Essence of the Trinity.
Archimandrite Paisius Tanasievic
