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What Is the Nature of Being Alone? (Stephen A. Gregg and Asad Tarsin)

Renovatio: The Podcast

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Detachment for Its Own Sake

In the christian tradition. N we hear it a lot in the monastery. By doing that, by not having my own children, the promise is i will be available to have a hundred children various people whom i will encounter. So being isolated is, in fact, what makes me accessible somehow to other people. We are obviously taking upon ourselves a more stringent, like ascetic practice than the average christian or the average member of many an rent. The fact that i don't have wife and children is precisely because i know that those things are precious, and so i can make an offering of them in a way that i hope. But that means, yes, even in this more radical

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