#147- Rule of Saint Benedict Part 1
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The Council of War - You Don't Defense Your Own Views Obstinately, Defend Them.
When it's a big time decision, you bring in everyone, every brother, and have a council of war. You ask them to express their opinions with all humility, and not to presume to defend their own views obstinately. The lowliest quoir monk who's on kitchen duty, probably good. I like the bit about the younger ones. So they might say something that hadn't occurred to you, after all your wounds and scar tissue, as an older person. And i think that's probably probably true out of the mouths of babes.
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