Macarius
said to Zacharias, ‘Tell me, what makes a monk?’
He said, ‘Isn’t it wrong for you to be asking me?’ Macarius said to him, ‘I am
sure I should ask you, Zacharias my son. There is something that urges me to
ask you.’ Zacharias said to him, ‘As far as I can tell, abba, I think anyone
who controls himself and makes himself content with just what he needs and no
more, is indeed a monk.'
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