But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.