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Analysis Of Brian Taylor's Attraction To The Benedictine Way

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Brian Taylor’s attraction to the Benedictine way is that it is a counterculture of wisdom. He states that this pathway has five different qualities—ordinariness, commitment, self-denial, simplicity, and silence—that make its followers challenge the normalcies of our world. One of the qualities of the Benedictine pathway that stood out to me was commitment. This section of his article stood out to me the most because I am a huge commitment phobe; This has always affected my relationship with others as well as other aspects of my life. Taylor discusses how commitment in the Benedictine language is synonymous to “stability” and “devotion to a community for the rest of one’s life” (Taylor, 132). Today, we live in an environment where it is okay

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