It is clear to me that solitude is my vocation, not as a flight from the world but as my place in the world, because for me to find solitude is only to separate myself from all the forces that destroy me and destroy history, in order to be united with the Life and Peace that build the City of God in history and rescue the children of God from hell.
– Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas, pp. 257-58
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 