Chapter 55: Clothing and footwear for the community (paragraphs 1-2)
The local conditions and climate should be the deciding factors in questions about the clothing of the community, because obviously in a cold climate more clothing is needed and less where it is warm.
(From para. 1 of Ch. 55 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
I peel away at the layers of things and ideas that I use the present a false identity, a false self. The practice of meditation is that peeling away, and helps me find my true and humble place in relation to the created world.
Just having been clothes shopping out of necessity and having had to travel a distance to do so, I reflected on the need for simple, uniform clothing. It is like prayer, like meditation isn't it? I do not have to shop around or travel or spend any money for what is so simple-meditation. It is here with me and my little one word mantra-quite uniform but oh so unique to each one of us as my life and your life is changed.
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