For those looking for the ideal religious life...
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Yet all you keep running into is lax communities - or maybe just find yourself in one already.
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"Not every one can change his outward situation. It is usually our outlook, not our outward situation, that needs changing. It is not the place that sanctifies us, but by a holy life we can sanctify both the place and ourselves." - Archbishop Brianchaninov (1807-1867), The Arena: An Offering to Contemporary Monasticism.
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Just a thought.
