Desert Fathers

Reading a book on the Desert Fathers, they went a long way in the search for their souls, believed in bringing out their inner light. They were around about 1600 years ago. It was another age, when living in a cave would not have been seen as such a weird thing, today such behaviour would be all but prohibited. Asceticism was the name of their game, and no doubt the going got tough, but by all accounts they got results, transcended the mundane, got to what was real. Served as inspiration for generations to come. Well done Desert Fathers, you might have lived many hundreds of years ago but you were way ahead of the pack compared to the likes of us.