Experience

Experience of the world is useful to the solitary or would-be hermit because it allows the person to draw conclusions, contrasts, and confirmations. Experience ...

Discipline

Discipline does not contradict the ethos of eremitism if it comes from nature, not authority. Discipline is the tempering of the self through the creation of be...

Politics of Eremitism

This is part 1 of what may be many parts. Those who reclused themselves in ancient China left the court and city with their families for rural simplicity. (The ...

“Judge not …”

In relating with another person, we are not dealing with that person only but with everyone that person has known or who has been an influence. This is why we a...