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Podcast: The Commentaries
Episode: 4. The Imitation of Christ: Silence and Solitude
Description: We live in a world that thrives on constant stimulation. Even a monk in Western Australia, like Fr. Robert Nixon, isn’t immune to the noise.“We've got, of course, many human and social distractions,” Fr. Nixon says. “And on top of this, there are a whole range of work demands, and then there's the whole electronic thing, which I guess as a monk I'm rather lucky to have to a much lesser extent to most people in the world.”No matter what your station in life may be, the ability to pursue silence and solitude i...