# A Search for Solitude

## 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))