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1962·Trappist, Kentucky, USA
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them.
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard.
Zhuangzi·-300 ADThe effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become preoccupied with what we are not.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry·1942It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADI have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
