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selfishness…

August 27, 2009 Comments

desert fatherThis adventure is changing me. It is digging up a lot of selfishness that I previously thought I was above… selfishness that relates to my consumerist nature. I find pleasure in consuming and don’t take the time to produce, to create. And this part of me needs to die.

I’m reading a book on the early desert fathers, monks who practiced a eremitic lifestyle characterized by chastity…