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Withdrawal from the world does not mean bodily removal from it, but the severance of the soul from sympathy with the body, and the giving up city, home, personal possessions, love of friends, property, means of subsistence, business, social relations, and knowledge derived from human teaching.

— Basil of Caesarea

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

We thus become temples of God whenever earthly cares cease to interrupt the continuity of our memory of Him.

For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.

You must give heed unto virtue, O men, which swims forth even with a man who has suffered shipwreck, and, on his coming naked to land, will render him more honoured than the happy Phaeacians.

The earth doth not cover our beloved, but heaven hath received him; let us tarry for a while, and we shall be in his company.

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