"The desert monks were not moralists concerned that others behave in a proper way so much as people acutely aware of their own weaknesses who tried to see their situation clearly without the distortions of pride, ambition, or anger. They saw sin (what they called bad thoughts) as any impulse that leads us away from paying full attention to who and what we are and what we're doing; any thought or act that interferes with out ability to love God and neighbor."
-Kathleen Norris, pg 98, Dakota
it all seems simultaneously simpler and more complicated when you're alone, walking across an empty field of snow, in the quiet of a Tuesday morning.
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