Without knowing where he was going, with no particular place in mind, he stepped into the trees and walked away.
It had just about zero gas and I was miles and miles from any gas station,” he said.
There have been hermits – also known as recluses, monks, misanthropes, ascetics, anchorites, swamis – at all times in recorded history, across all cultures.
Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha all spent significant time alone before introducing a new religion to the world.
The Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom.
Maine is partitioned into a series of long north-south valleys, the geologic clawmark left by glaciers surging and retreating.
Profound truths, or at least those that make sense of the seeming randomness of life, are difficult to find. »
