“I feel called to a life of solitude. What should I do?”

A reader named Thomas wrote to me:

Dear Sir;
Blessings.  Where can a person go to be a hermit.  I am called to a life of solitude.  But I don’t know where to go.  Do you have any ideas?

Dear Thomas,

Thanks for writing. Feeling called to a life of solitude is a serious matter. Let me share with you some thoughts, based on my understanding of what the traditi…