If you seek escape for its own sake and run away from the world only because it is (as it must be) intensely unpleasant, you will not find peace and you will not find solitude. If you seek solitude merely because it is what you prefer, you will never escape from the world and its selfishness; you will never have the interior freedom that will keep you really alone.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968). New Seeds Of Contemplation
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These are things that make me smile, or laugh, or think. 