There is a sad misconception that only monastics are called to a genuine prayer life. If this were true, the apostle would not have said to the whole Thessalonian congregation of believers: Pray incessantly (1 Thess. 5, 17). But how can you pray incessantly if a person's life is a series of a wide variety of necessary things? Our book is about the high path of the innermost prayer work - the great co-creation of God and man, which the holy fathers called art from art. Approved for distribution by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.