On a warm September afternoon, we, the novice monks of the Monastery of the Caves in Pscof - in our youth at the time - climbed up from the passages and corridors of the monastery onto the ancient walls and settled somewhere high up. In front of us stretched the garden and the fields. In the midst of conversation, we began to remember how each of us had appeared in the monastery. And the more we listened to each other, the more surprised we felt...

So why did we go there and desperately want to stay forever? We knew the answer to this question well: a wonderful world had been revealed to each of us, incomparable to anything else. And this world seemed incredibly more attractive than anything we had experienced in our few and happy years. It is for this world that I want to speak to you in the book you hold, about this wonderful world where people live by completely different rules from those of ordinary life; the world of infinite light, full of love and joyful revelations, the world of hope and happiness, of trials, victories, and the discovery of meaning in defeats. And most importantly: about the powerful phenomena of God's strength and help - it is these things that I want to tell you about in this book...