You don’t have to be religious to develop your spiritual side

"With the solitary life,” he says, “no matter how satisfied you are, what is missing is human intimacy – not really the sex part of it, but that sense of intimacy, being with someone close to you.”

“More and more people are turning to this way of life. We don’t become solitary because we’re afraid of the world, but because we want to step aside from that busyness and chaos. We want some silence, to be reflective.” 

Religious hermits focus on their relationship with God. But, says Whiteaker, you don’t have to be religious to develop your spiritual side, to concentrate on the things “that really count”


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/9539104/Life-lessons-from-modern-day-hermits.html