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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 wil...more

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Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be ...more

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Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fr...more

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The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in so...more

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Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the sile...more