{"id":693,"date":"2009-03-30T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=693"},"modified":"2009-03-30T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:19:32","slug":"its-so-peaceful-here-ahhhhhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/03\/30\/its-so-peaceful-here-ahhhhhhh\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s so peaceful here… AHHHHHHH!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monks are symbols of such a deep human longing that, paradoxically, others often have trouble seeing them as human beings. This is a complaint monks will make to anyone who will listen.<\/p>\n

“If another person says, ‘It’s so peacful here,’ I’ll scream!” one monk said to me.<\/p>\n

I suspect that monastic life is like marriage in that only those on the inside really know what’s going on.<\/p>\n

-Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, p. 193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monks are symbols of such a deep human longing that, paradoxically, others often have trouble seeing them as human beings. This is a complaint monks will make to anyone who will listen. “If another person says, ‘It’s so peacful here,’ I’ll scream!” one monk said to me. I suspect that monastic life is like marriage … <\/p>\n

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