Laird distills the wisdom of the Desert Fathers and provides an accessible guide through this ancient Christian practice. By use of a the Jesus Prayer or a Prayer Word matched with the breath, one learns to become a witness of one's thoughts and not their victim. We find Christ within us resting in silence and stillness. From that silent land within us where Jesus is our monastery we learn that we are not our thoughts. Our thoughts and our temptations, our anxieties and our emotions are like much weather passing by and overhead, but we are the mountain. For "Whoever trusts in the LORD is like Mt. Zion: unshakeable, it stands forever" (Ps. 125:1). We all need quiet. We all need stillness. Pascal was right. "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room." So "be still and know" that the LORD is God (Ps. 46:10). Laird is a spectacular guide to that mysterious journey.