Retreat to a monastery can be chosen as a stanching of inner wound

Evidence

But while the others were despairing and drinking themselves into a stupor, Merton was zeroing in on spirituality and the idea of renouncing the world. “I am not physically tired, just filled with a deep, vague, undefined sense of spiritual distress, as if I had a deep wound running inside me and it had to be stanched.” He became fixated on the idea of joining the Trappists, a Catholic order of monks who, although they don’t take a strict vow of silence, are generally resigned to a silent and ascetic life. “It fills me with awe and desire,” Merton wrote in a letter. “I return to the idea again and again: ‘Give up everything, give up everything!’” 57 Merton arrived and was accepted at the Abbey of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky in 1941. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 219

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Retreat can begin with discovering a book that strips the mind of the world — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 215; A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192; Retreat as communal remaking differs from solitary renunciation — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 143
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Retreat can begin with discovering a book that strips the mind of the world — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 215; A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192; Retreat as communal remaking differs from solitary renunciation — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 143

Broader Connections

• Retreat as communal remaking differs from solitary renunciation #complicates (0.74) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 143