I laid eyes, by chance, on this Arabic aphorism: “he who obeys your staff, has disobeyed you”. I thought it would be beneficial to transfer it to my lines, to preserve it and to extend the benefit. The picture is clear. The saying is criticizing, with obvious severity, bringing people, by force, to obedience. It ...
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Monasticism
The Exiled Christ
I was thinking of the deserted endowments of the Christians; contemplating the exiled Christ! Here, near me, there is an endowment to a monastery where the priest who maintained it, loved the poor. Monks obey! He was removed from his position in the hope that the property of the monastery will be invested for the ...
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