25 July 2020
The Love of Solitude and Silence
Raise
your eyes to God in heaven and pray because of your sins and shortcomings.
Leave vanity to the vain. Set yourself to the things which God has commanded
you to do. Close the door upon yourself and call to you Jesus, your Beloved.
Remain with Him in your cell, for nowhere else will you find such peace. If you
had not left it, and had not listened to idle gossip, you would have remained
in greater peace. But since you love, sometimes, to hear news, it is only right
that you should suffer sorrow of heart from it.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ,
p29
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