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“Temporary solitude from all things in this life, the meditation within yourself about the divine, is food as necessary for your soul as material food is for your body”

Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

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A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Death Father Dying Poems

Book:Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Source: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

“I wait for death like a lover waits for love alone in his room fondling a piece of curtain or by the train tracks kicking pebbles under the sun.”

Love Life Death Humanity Solitude Lover

Book:Stems from the Edge of Silence: Writings from the springs of the mind

Source: Stems from the Edge of Silence: Writings from the springs of the mind

“to grow we need authentic sharing community and we need true contemplative solitude, most people are afraid of both - and choose to rather live somewhere in the mediocre middle”

Spirituality Community Solitude Contemplation Spiritual Growth Jaco Strydom Echo Youth

Author:Jaco Strydom

“Renewal in solitude is one of the visible patterns in the life and leadership of Jesus. This was how he retained His focus, faithfulness and fruitfulness in spite of all the crisis that characterized His ministry.”