Editing Hesychasm (section)

== Further reading ==

;Early monasticism
* ''The ''[[Philokalia]]''.
* ''[[The Ladder of Divine Ascent]]''.
* ''[[The Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian]]''.
* Works of St. Symeon the New Theologian.
* ''Coenobitical Institutions'' and ''Conferences'' of St. John Cassian.

;19th–20th century
* ''[[The Way of the Pilgrim]]''
* ''[[Silouan the Athonite|St. Silouan the Athonite]]''. (Contains an introduction by [[Archimandrite Sophrony]] (Sakharov), immediate disciple of St. Silouan, together with the meditations of St. Silouan (1866–1938).)
* Works of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896–1993).
* ''[[Joseph the Hesychast|Elder Joseph the Hesychast]]''. (Life of a very influential Hesychast on Mt Athos who died in 1959.)
* ''Monastic Wisdom. The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast''.
* ''Wounded by Love. The Life and the Wisdom of Elder Porphyrios''. (Reminiscences and reflections of Elder Porphyrios (1906–1991) of Mt Athos.)
* Works by Elder Paisios (1924–1994) of Mount Athos. (A very well known Athonite Elder and Hesychast.)
* ''Elder Ephraim of Katounakia''. Translated by Tessy Vassiliadou-Christodoulou. (Life and teachings of Elder Ephraim (1912–1998) of Katounakia, Mt Athos, a disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast.)
* ''Hieromonachos Charalampos Dionusiates, O didaskalos tes noeras proseuches (Hieromonk Charalambos of the Monastery of Dionysiou, The Teacher of Mental Prayer)''.  (Life and teachings of Elder Charalambos (1910–2001), sometime Abbot of the Monastery of Dionysiou, Mt Athos, and a disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast. In Greek, available in English.)
* Works of Archimandrite Aimilianos (1934–2019) of the Monastery of Simonos Petra, Mt Athos, especially Volumes I and II.
* ''Counsels from the Holy Mountain. Selected from the Lessons and Homilies of Elder Ephraim''. (Archimandrite Ephraim of the Monastery of St. Anthony, Florence, Arizona. Formerly Abbot of the Monastery of Philotheou on Mt Athos, and a disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast. Not to be confused with Elder Ephraim of Katounakia.)

; Secondary
* ''Hesychasm: an annotated bibliography'', Sergey S. Horujy, Moscow 2004.
* {{cite book | last=Johnson | first=Christopher D. L. | title=The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer: Contesting Contemplation | publisher=Continuum | publication-place=London | date=2010 | isbn=978-1-4411-1886-8 | oclc=686775525}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070502095209/http://www.fonsvitae.com/pathstoheart.html ''Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East''], edited by [[James Cutsinger]]