“A brother came to Scetis to visit Abba Moses and asked him for a word. The old man said to him, ‘Go sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you all things.’”
This will end the series of quotations from the Apophthegmata Patrum. “Go sit in your cell and your cell will teach you all things” seems, in large part, to sum up the ethos of the Desert Fathers.