INDIVIDUAL’S SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT: RELIGIOUS APPROACH

Abstract

The article considers objectives, content and means of an individual’s spiritual
development and self-development; stages of spiritual growth during the process
of his/her approaching to God are characterized; inner essence of prayer practice
from the position of the Orthodox Christianity is revealed.
Keywords: spiritual development and self-development, prayer practice, Orthodox
Hesychasm, stages of spiritual transformation, transfiguration of a human.