An Elder...

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Jun 10, 2021
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...was in his cell busily at work and wearing a hairshirt when Abba Ammonas came to him. When Ammonas saw him wearing a hairshirt he said: That thing won't do you a bit of good.

- Thomas Merton, The Wisdom Of The Desert

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