If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.
![If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/richard-rohr/if-im-going-to-continue-to-be-any-kind-of-spiritual-teacher-ive-got-to-go-deeper-myself-and-so.jpg)