To be a person who likes solitude as part of their spiritual practice, it does not mean that you cut yourself off from the world. Yes, in some prayer you are in solitude and you appreciate your alone time. But it allows you to be able penetrate the everyday of your world and find God there. You withdraw from the everyday so that you are led back to the everyday, but with a depth of connection and insight. The same is no longer the same. No one climbs a mountain to sit forever on the summit. But you will never be the same from the summit experience. Escape from the world is not mysticism. Rather, you begin to see unity with all things in a new way. If I am in a monastery to run away from the world, I am here for the wrong reason.
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I sometimes think of my apartment as my monastery.
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