"An old monk said: "The cliffs are the palaces of the monks. Their roof is the sky. Their mattress is the ground. They live on nuts and wild greens. Their neighbours are the wild beasts. Royal chambers are the caves.""
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Anonymous Athonite monk. In: Kotsonis, Priestmonk Ioannikios (2003). An Athonite Gerontikon: Sayings and Stories of the Holy Fathers of Mount Athos (2nd ed.). Koufalia, Thessaloniki: Holy Monastery of St. Gregory Palamas. p. 195, Ch. 13: "On the virtue of discernment of thoughts and spiritual states"
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