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.
“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
“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
“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
“The question slipped out of my mouth and shlopped onto the floor like a dead fish where the four of us stared blankly at it.”
― And I Heard the Mourner Say
― And I Heard the Mourner Say
“The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and”
― Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
― Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
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