MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

Dear Abbot: Monastic Advice for Modern Living

What Do Monks Know? Plenty. Reviewing 3 Books of Monastic Wisdom about Work, Life, and Everything Else

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Joel J Miller
Oct 08, 2022
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A trinity of books about monks and monkish advice.

Life requires a few fundamentals. I’m thinking primarily of air, water, and food but also of advice. Think about it: There are far too many ways to go wrong and nowhere near enough lifetimes to find the best course by experimentation alone. We either rely on advice or we die early. Not perfect, but it be…

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