Accordingly, in the Prologue of Sayings of the Desert Fathers the writer makes the following observation of the Egyptian monks, "they do not busy themselves with any earthly matter or take account of anything that belongs to this transient world…scattered in the desert waiting for Christ-like loyal sons watching for their father, or like an army expecting its emperor…There is only the expectation of the coming of Christ...” While this may be an idyllic interpretation by the author of the Egyptian desert saint’s journey, nevertheless, it highlights that these monks appear to have achieved their goal of putting distance between the world and themselves and were succeeding in their goal to live unobstructed lives, moving ever closer to the
