I don't know how to tell it
– It’s hard to explain
– So that no one is offended
– This journalist is an Eremite
– Jesus spent 40 days in the desert
– An Eremite only asks to be left in peace
– The human being is condemned to be free
– If we are forced to be, deep down we are Not
– Sartre said that “hell is other people”
– Misunderstandings force me to define myself
– Not everybody understands the hermits
– I am the Hermit of the Tarot playing the role of a Magician
– It is very difficult to be an ascetic in the modern world
– In Spain there is a waiting list to be a Hermit
– The meaning of life is the search for Truth
– Alchemists also tend to be solitary beings
– The eremitic life has a great oriental tradition
– In the Buddhist tradition it is very normal to live in retreat
– This philosophy culminates in the Buddhist ideal of Nirvana
– The world is a sad “bittersweet concoction” according to Schopenhauer
– The supreme goal of a human being is to attain enlightenment
– The greatest service one can do to humankind is to become enlightened