On Monastic Life

He who does not try to become the least, the servant of all, cannot remain in peace for long. You have come to serve not to rule... called to suffer and to work, not to idle and gossip away your time. Here men are tried as gold in a furnace. No man can remain unless he desires with all his heart to humble himself before God.

This used to ring true for the monasteries (I believe it still does) but what my take away now is that we are also called to live out the new monasticism.