The book contains the conversations of Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh, which have never been published in Russian. Unlike many others, these conversations are addressed primarily to secular audiences - from college students to Cambridge students, from an interview on BBC radio to a conversation with a Profile journalist - and are devoted to important worldview topics: chaos and order, beauty and complexity, law and freedom, spirit and psyche. Metropolitan Anthony was able to find unusual images for his listeners - he speaks about beauty through mathematics, about theology through paradoxes. He asks the most important questions of life and gives deep, intelligent, honest and inspiring answers to them.