Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to be.
“The average Facebook user, by contrast, spends around 350 minutes per week on this company’s services”
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“God is “all in all.” He therefore is, or ought to be, the only supreme, absolute object of our thoughts and desires; other things are from and for him only.”
― Spiritual-Mindedness
― Spiritual-Mindedness
“Though it is true that my memory feels the weight of decay, and the cuts on my lip and the scars on my back bear the weight of sickness, I am not like you. You are here, trapped in the prison of your own body until death relieves the weight of your flesh of its prisoning duty. For me, freedom lies just beyond the floodwaters.”
― And I Heard the Mourner Say
― And I Heard the Mourner Say
“I knew it was true—that all that is gold does not glitter.”
― And I Heard the Mourner Say
― And I Heard the Mourner Say
“You shall never find a bundle of affliction which has not bound up in the midst of it sufficient grace. God”
― Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
― Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
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