The life of solitaries is higher than this world
Notes from Wikiquote
namely they do not take wife or husband. | Instead of this, face to face | they experience intimacy with God. | By means of the true icon of the world beyond | they are always united to God in prayer. | For prayer more than any other thing | draws the mind to fellowship with God | and makes it shine in its ways. | 1.1, p. 8