“If the Monk does not think in his heart that he is a sinner, God will not hear him. The brother said, ‘What does that mean, to think in his heart that he is a sinner?’ Then the old man said, ‘When someone is occupied with his own faults, he does not see those of his neighbour.'”

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“The Monk must die to his neighbour and never judge him at all, in any way whatever.”

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