The volume "Mount Athos, the unquenchable flame" aims to preserve something of the nobility, grace, magic, but also the strictness of an "unorthodoxy" such as monasticism, as its existence dangerously enlarges the margin for the world to be able to change at any moment into a poetic event. One only needs to pay attention to the names of the authors who sign the texts of this volume: Papadiamantis, Kazantzakis, Theotokas, Uranis, Kontoglou, Prevelakis and many other great representatives of literature and the arts. Whether religious or atheist, admirers or cautious, urban or marginal, one feels that their expressive tools are inadequate in order to articulate a revelation that happens to them and overturns the facts of their lives, as they have been shaped until the time they visit Mount Athos. What else could be characterized as a miracle in the life of every person, other than the initial concern and the subsequent willingness to change their deepest self, which transforms them into a child of God? The volume "Mount Athos, the unquenchable flame", with the century-long duration covered by the writing and publication of its texts, humbly claims to contribute to the activation of this miracle in extremely difficult and challenging times.