Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

Dasui asked a monk, “Where are you going?”
The monk said, “I’m going to live alone on West Mountain.”
Dasui asked, “If I call out to the top of East Mountain for you, will you come or not?”
The monk said, “Of course not.”
Dasui said, “You haven’t attained ‘living alone’ yet.”

To be alone, you need to be everywhere all at once, all the time.