"All of a man's problems derive from his inability to sit quietly alone in his room."
An exaggeration, no doubt, but curiously apropos at the present time.
More on Pascal in my Pascal category.
Thomas Merton wrote a very good book, The Silent Life. Had he been more assiduous in the living of that life he would not have quit his hermitage to attend a theology conference in Bangkok where he met his end by electrocution at the young age of 53.
I will come back to what for Merton and for many of us is the central conflict in the spiritual life, that between contemptus mundi and secular concern.
More on Merton in my Merton category.
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