 … The monastery, then, would not be the ‘establishment’ of the monks, but the "schola Domini", the school where that human dimension is cultivated and transmitted.… Here appears the consequence of our distinction between the monk as archetype, i.e., the monk as a paradigm of religious life, against the archetype of the monk, i.e., the human archetype lived out by the monks, but which may also be experienced and lived today in different ways.