People search for quiet places to escape — country villages, the seashore, mountains. You yourself often crave such places. But know that this comes from the deepest kind of simplicity. Whenever you want, you can retreat into yourself and find rest, free from all distractions. A person cannot retreat to any better place than his own soul, especially if he has prepared good things within. When he looks inside, he finds perfect peace and calm right away. By calm I mean a proper, orderly way of being — free from confusion and chaos. Give yourself this retreat constantly, and refresh yourself.
They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore, mountains; yea thou thyself art wont to long much after such places. But all this thou must know proceeds from simplicity in the highest degree. At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses. A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul; he especially who is beforehand provided of such things within, which whensoever he doth withdraw himself to look in, may presently afford unto him perfect ease and tranquillity. By tranquillity I understand a decent orderly disposition and carriage, free from all confusion and tumultuousness. Afford then thyself this retiring continually, and thereby refresh and renew thyself.