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In the meantime, I completed a second round of self-confinement at home.

From New York Times • May 13, 2020

The spirit of religion is always ascending upwards; and, spreading itself through the whole essence of the soul, loosens it from a self-confinement and narrowness, and so renders it more capacious of Divine enjoyment….

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph