“To stand apart is to take the view of the outsider without leaving, always oriented toward what it is you would have left. It means not fleeing your enemy, but knowing your enemy, which turns out not to be the world – contemptus mundi – but the channels through which you encounter it day to day.”

“To stand apart is to take the view of the outsider without leaving, always oriented toward what it is you would have left. It means not fleeing your enemy, but knowing your enemy, which turns out not to be the world – contemptus mundi – but the channels through which you encounter it day to day.”

— Jenny Odell