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"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."
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"We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being."

"But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess - to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it."

"When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!"

"A time of solitude will always produce some fruits."

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion."
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

"No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand."
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