Thomas Merton quote: Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and ...

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 ~

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