St Theophan the Recluse: "How Is Your Prayer?"

I found this quotation on an excellent Orthodox blog called Milk and Honey. It's from St Theophanes the Recluse (a saint of the Orthodox Church); the full text (a mini-essay on prayer) can be found here.

Let me recall a wise custom of the ancient Holy Fathers: when greeting each other, they did not ask about health or anything else, but rather about prayer, saying “How is your prayer?” The activity of prayer was considered by them to a be a sign of the spiritual life, and they called it the breath of the spirit. If the body has breath, it lives; if breathing stops, life comes to an end. So it is with the spirit. If there is prayer, the soul lives; without prayer, there is no spiritual life.

Incidentally, is there any reason why most Catholic bloggers seem to prefer Blogger while most Orthodox bloggers seem to prefer Wordpress? There are numerous exceptions on both sides of the equation, but I've observed a very definite pattern.

(Having said that, a lot of Thomists also seem to favour Wordpress...)