Chapter, Paragraph

 1 1,8|            life of hesychasm (inner silence), teaching concerning the
 2 3,6|    Presanctified Gifts, in profound silence. At this time the faithful
 3 3,7|  extinguished. The faithful wait in silence for the moment when the
 4 4,9|          found alone. And they kept silence and told no one in those
 5 5,2|           in complete seclusion and silence within the Monastery or
 6 6,0|           in words, but also by our silence, by our actions or in many
 7 6,2| constriction of the heart, profound silence, inner concentration and
 8 6,2|          slanders with patience and silence, following the rule that
 9 6,3|    Tradition. Let us therefore keep silence, and let us not try to dogmatize
10 9,2|          Prayerbook says: “Stand in silence for a few moments until
11 9,8|            in prayer. “The Psalm is silence of the soul,” writes St.