One of the best known of the Desert Fathers of fourth-century Egypt, St. Sarapion the Sindonite, travelled once on pilgrimage to Rome. Here he was told of a celebrated recluse, a woman who lived always in one small room, never going out. Skeptical about her way of life — for he was himself a great wanderer — Serapion called on her and asked: “Why are you sitting here?” To this she replied: “I am not sitting, I am on a journey”.

Metr. Kallistos of Diokleia, The Orthodox Way