When you go to a monastery, it's for loneliness. It's bad to live in a monastery for someone who wants to live there as if in society. And there is only one thing to know - the abbot or the spiritual father and the elder; and in relation to the others, he must be as if he were not there. Then everything will go well; and without it, the confusion is worse than the St. Petersburg balls. - St. Theophan the Recluse
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