"A monk is a man who has been called by the Holy Spirit to relinquish the cares, desires, and ambitions of other men, and who devotes his entire life to seeking God. He withdraws from 'the world. He gives himself entirely to prayer, meditation, study, labor, penance, under the eyes of God." 
Thomas Merton, The Silent Life

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