Your solitude will bear immense fruit in the souls of men and women you will never see on earth.
~ from THE SEVEN STORY MOUNTAIN by Thomas Merton
So in the end I am left only with hope.
I hope the nights are transformative.
I hope every dawn brings deeper love,
for each of us individually and for
the world as a whole.I hope that
John of the Cross was right when
he said the intellect is transformed
into faith, and the will into love
and the memory into—hope.