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comparing monks to anarchists
"the abbot and monastery resort to prayer for the wayward monk, and if divine intervention fails, the
monk is excluded from the monastery. The consequence of disobedience is removal from the brotherhood.
When a monk offends another brother, he lays prostrate on the ground until the offended brother
blesses him, marking not just the enforcement of a broken rule but also the repairing of a damaged
relationship. The bottom line seems that obedience to the rule must be enforced internally: if you don’t
want to belong, no one is going to make you."