Dorotheos is the ideal spiritual master to introduce us into the rich spiritual universe of the deserts of Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Dorotheos is a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimilating in an organised harmony the wisdom of his predecessors in the life of the Spirit. He is a shrewd observer, a master psychologist and an accomplished raconteur. However he is much more interested in humbly serving the brethren than in discoursing about the more recondite aspects of the hesychast experience.