When a man detaches his mind from earth and opens it to God with the desire to please Him, then God reveals His will in various ways. St. Peter of Damascus writes: ‘If a man has a full intention to please God, then God teaches him His will either through thoughts, through some other person, or through Holy Scripture.’ Such a man becomes attentive and keen, and awaits God’s promptings from within and from without. For him, chance ceases to exist. The whole world becomes as a ten-stringed harp, which does not give out a single sound without the finger of God.

— Prologue of Ohrid