Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. In the instant of the moment, I surfaced innumerable unsuspectings. But now they're suspicious of a scarce-material edge. It is enlargeable but is arrested in completion.
Monasticism is one of the oldest human institutions.
It testifies to the unquenchable thirst of the human soul to awaken to its origin. Early Christian monasticism had a strong lay character and developed in contrast to the clerical state. Monks were free spirits seeking God through Christ, alone or in community. By the 6th century St. Benedict, who was not a priest, inherited a diverse set of Christian monastic forms. In his famous Rules for Monasteries he simplified and synthesized this tradition and produced a vision of life that has inspired Christians of all walks of life down to the present day.