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Orthodox Spirituality: A Practical Guide for the Faithful and a Definitive Manual for the Scholar is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing from Scripture and patristic teachings, Dumitru Staniloae offers clear discussion of the goal of Orthodox spirituality and major steps of the spiritual life. Part one of this text covers purification, part two talks about illumination, and part three, perfection. Here in translation from the original Romanian, the text retains its informal and conversational style. Staniloae notes,...

our nature, but a poison which for us can be the healing of the venomous bites of evil.18 Not entering by definition into our nature, these natural passions aren’t destined to accompany it to the future life. There we will be pure minds, in the sense of subjects preoccupied only with spiritual love and understanding as the angels: … because the natural passions which conserve life here can’t be transported with us to the immortal and eternal life. We will be ‘pure minds,’ as we were created. The
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