In order to help this brother and do all I could to sustain his belief, I reached for my Philokalia in my sack, found chapter 109 by Saint Hesychios, and read it aloud. I explained to him that to abstain from sins merely out of fear of torments was of no avail and did not lead to victory. I told him that it was impossible for the soul to be liberated from the sins of many years by any means other than custody of the mind and purity of the heart. “And since all of this is acquired by means of interior