is not so, in general, the life of every person can be compared with the hero of the novel dorian gray dorianlected all the passions and sins that he committed while he himself remained a beautiful young man, exactly the same way, and each of us has such a portrait, our soul, which reflects everything passions and sins that we commit as a person begins to live a spiritual life. the lord begins to reveal to a person a little bit. this, this is the true shape of the soul of each of us. i am a nun niko, i am a rapist of the light of the nikolsky convent in the city mogilev monasticism is the joy of communion with god. each of us in life intersects with some people with circumstances with some insults and sorrows, but in fact all these people circumstances are just like mirrors that reflect our essence to us. it seems to us that we are offended because we were offended, but in fact this mirror reflects our essence, that we have made sheep, that we have pride. in the monastery, this discovery of self-knowledge occurs most deeply, because the lord’s goal is to show the monk what he is on in fact, t