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In searching for an apt self-descriptive phrase, I find James Cahill on the scholar-official or scholar-gentleman who comprised the ranks of the hermits of anci...

There is a felicitous passage by Shunryu Suzuki in the recent collection entitled Not Always So: “Although we have no actual communications from the world...

Had to take the dog out at 4 AM. It was about 40 degrees, a clear, black, cloudless sky, with enormous stars. And in the north, a huge Big Dipper was laid out i...

The psychology of solitude in Anthony Storr and Howard Gardner is too often seen as a tool for creativity. Their books feature composers, musicians, artists, wr...

Is it possible to be a hermit and not live alone? The most famous recluse of ancient China was Liang Hung, who lived as a hermit with his wife Meng Kuang nearly...

The Stoic idea of solitude shows how it is impossible to be a hermit in this tradition. One is a recluse, which is different. A hermit “professes” h...

I started hermitary.com because I could not find a Web site devoted to hermits. A lot of hermit crabs, hermit thrushes, Herman’s Hermits, and various peop...