Perennial Meditations

How to Be Alone


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In this episode, I share a short reflection on The Wisdom of Solitude.

How might your life change if you adopted the practice of solitude? According to the Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, learning to be alone is a path to peace and connection (one of life's many paradoxes). Merton wrote, "The person who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely." [...]

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