Una monja es una mujer que hace voto de dedicar su vida a la oración, el servicio religioso y la contemplación, generalmente viviendo bajo votos de pobreza, castidad y obediencia en el recinto de un monasterio o convento. El término se usa a menudo indistintamente con hermanas religiosas, quienes hacen votos simples pero viven una vocación activa de oración y trabajo caritativo en la sociedad más amplia.
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“If he goes forth from the household life into homelessness, then he will become an Arahant, a fully-enlightened Buddha, one who draws back the veil from the world.”
“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”
“Monasticism, retreat from the world, reclusivism, that’s a lot of crap.”
“Academe needs deprofessionalization and deyuppification. It has to recover its clerical or spiritual roots. Scholarship is an ideal and a calling, not merely a trade or living. Every year at commencement, we put on medieval robes that connect us to a great monastic past.”
“Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast—almost grotesquely—to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.”
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