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A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
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A monk is a man who is separated from all and who is in harmony with all.
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Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.
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To separate the body from the soul is the privilege of only of the One who has joined them together. But to separate the soul from the body lies as well in the power of the man who pursues virtue. For our Fathers gave to the meditation of death and to the flight from the body a spiritual name: anachoresis [withdrawal].
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Evagrius Ponticus
Born:
345
Died:
399
(aged 54)
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