Garden of Solitude

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​This is the difficult road of conversion, the conversion from loneliness into solitude. Instead of running away from our loneliness and trying to forget or sent it, we have to protect stand turn it into a fruitful solitude. To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

-Henri Nouwen, Seeds of Hope

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