To achievetranquillity involves learning to be comfortable alone as well as in the company of others. No one can escape circumstances that lead to loneliness. Mature persons have learned that loneliness is not overcome but only poorly masked by frantic socializing and noisy entertainment. Indeed, efforts to escape solitude by sating the ears only deepen loneliness when the TV is clicked off and darkness falls. It is really sad if people find tranquillity only in sleep.
Tranquillity is for the day as well as for the night.
To accept solitude is the first step in achieving tranquillity. If you regularly invite God into the center of the soul, then the seeds of silence thus planted eventually blossom into a solitude glowing with all the hues of happiness. We don't arrive at such ecstatic solitude without discipline, and most of us are inclined to leave this spiritual goal to monks. This need not be. Earnest Christians can find tranquillity without taking monastic vows.