Discovering True Joy

THE PATH

Three Insights — Solitude, Love, and Joy

According to the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, learning to be alone is a path to peace and a deeper connection in the world. Merton wrote, “The person who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much they surround themselves with people.” But the person who learns, in solitude and recollection, will find peace in their loneliness.

Lanzetta explained,

As the theologian and writer Henri Nouwen put it, “Solitude is vastly different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows.”

Similar to wisdom, there are many interpretations of the meaning of love. What does love mean to you? Do we need to love ourselves to be able to love others?

In the classic The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis wrote:

Every chapter of the book could have been titled Love Yourself — with all the pages filled with one sentence, repeated over and over: “Love yourself. Love yourself. Love…

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