A monk ran into a party of handmaids of the Lord on a certain journey. Seeing them he left the road and gave them a wide berth. But the Abbess said to him: If you were a perfect monk, you would not even have looked close enough to see that we were women.
--Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert
3 comments:
Ouch!
I know I'm no monk...hehehe :)
All the more reason to reject perfect monkery . . .
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