There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”
“I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.”