Raven’s Bread is a quarterly newsletter shared among hermits. The following is an article written by Father Charles about his experience in solitude. A link to the Raven’s Bread website follows.
Quote: “Where does contemplation lead one? Since it finds the Ground of Love in all reality, it leads to one’s sisters and brothers; it creates a social consciousness; it leads to a deeper unity and love with and for the earth…If we can enter into this communion with all beings of the earth, living and nonliving, we will come to realize that we are part of the earth and the earth is part of us…”