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Solitude and Silence

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.
- Octavio Paz, Nobel Laureate

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone
And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private:
and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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