Nuns have traditionally lived in cloisters—places that are set apart from the world, protected into a kind of peacefulness that is rare in the secular world.
What do you cloister—keep separate and secret from the daily world so that it is protected?
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If I post a comment to the Daily Compass today for “all” (who are interested) to read, then it will not be cloistered, right? I think that we all have a mind that instinctively keeps some thoughts unannounced to others; this is natural and identifiable (perhaps) only to the thinker who conceives of it as a secret. There are (more than) several reasons for this: thinking that a secret thought expressed will hurt another and your relationship with him/her: thinking and expressing a thought or desire that will be ridiculed: speaking of something deemed treason that would involve legal action against yourself: and finally knowing that inside yourself instinctively it isn’t “the thing to do”. So, what do I cloister? All of the above…