Editing Theophan the Recluse (section)

==''The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned To It''==
''The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned To It'' was originally written in response to Theophan's encounter with a young woman. While at a ball, a Moscow woman began having thoughts she believed irrational about the meaning of life and the mortality of humans. After contacting Theophan, the two began corresponding through letters, the lady writing on her spiritual difficulties and Theophan responding with spiritual advice. She later became a nun.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spiritual Life - And How to be Attuned to it|url=http://theophan.net/sttheophan/writings.html|work=Writings of St. Theophan the Recluse|access-date=20 November 2012}}</ref> The Saint Herman Press, the publisher of the illustrated edition of ''The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It'', notes that it was of great importance to Theophan that the young woman should "be able to keenly hear the right 'tone' of spiritual life".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Spiritual Life: And How to be Attuned to it|year=1995|publisher=St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood |isbn=0938635360}}</ref>