The cost of being by yourself is quite high, not only spiritually, but mentally. Those who are isolated from the community by themselves—over time, they really go off. And when you interact with them after a while, you find their minds have gone in crazy fantasies, in crazy ideas, in crazy places that they should have never been before. Every time I am making a decision to isolate myself, I have to be quite careful.
—Fr. Mina Dimitri