What's the Heart of the Desert Hermit?

Anthony Bourdain: What we're seeing is an understanding of or a move from the falsity of permanence to an acceptance of impermanence. And do you think, you know, it's often the case that other people would go out and seek this hermit? He says there were hundreds of hermits in Egypt and Syria and Palestine; they'd come together on Sunday for their liturgy. "I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to live with my wife," he says.

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