Chapter 49: How Lent should be observed in the monastery

Therefore we urge that all in the monastery during these holy days of Lent should look carefully at the integrity of their lives and get rid in this holy season of any thoughtless compromises which may have crept in at other times. (From para. 1 of Ch. 49 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Where are the gaps?  At what points in my life is there a break in the connection between who I am and what I do?  What are the thoughtless compromises, the habits of thought, in which ego takes place over spirit, distraction takes place over attention, self takes place over others?