# A Search for Solitude ![[Assets/3c662948c553a5fee97aae7527fffe5e_MD5.jpg]] ## Metadata - Author: [[Thomas Merton]] - Full Title: A Search for Solitude - Category: #books ## Highlights - As Peter Levi once put it in his study of monks (The Frontiers of Paradise, 1987): “If a monk realized that his vocation as a young monk was to become an old monk, I think he would be terrified.” ([Location 157](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000U913PC&location=157))