Guerric of Igny
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On Solitude and CommunityBy the wonderful favor of God's loving care, in this solitude of ours we have the peace of solitude and yet we do not lack the consolation and comfort of holy companionship. It is possible for each of us to sit alone and be silent, because we have no one to disturb us with interruptions, yet it cannot be said of us: "Woe to him who is alone, since he has nobody to console him or if he should fall has none to lift him up." We are surrounded by companions, yet we are not in a crowd. We live as it were in a city, yet we have to contend with no tumult, so that the voice of one crying in the wilderness can be heard by us, provided only that we have interior silence to correspond to the exterior silence that surrounds us.
Liturgical Sermons, 4
