• Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

    Thomas Merton: Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
    Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.36, New Directions Publishing