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>>22954641
This is the first step of regeneration. The next step is to begin fasting, praying (particularly keeping the Liturgy of the Hours), going on retreats to monestaries, meditating, contemplation, reading the Greeks, reading the Patristics, reading the Saints, tithing, sleeping in the floor, and ultimately it culminates in monastic vows or marriage. These are the most important steps, the first true steps towards illumination, theosis, and diefication.

Think about all the neet/incels who could have had lives filled with beauty if they had realized their fate and chosen to become Cistercians or Carthusians instead? Rather than looking at their 23rd hour of porn in a week they could be contemplating the Beautiful, the Good, and the True, the divine and eternal Logos.

Pic related, Thomas Merton's hermit shack.

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>>22784423
Other side of the room. Your example is a room designed to make you sell your soul and your time on Earth to buy "abundance."

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