I agree that choosing poverty as a lifestyle can be egotistical, but monastic silence does not mean never interacting with humanity again. It's more to do with

I agree that choosing poverty as a lifestyle can be egotistical, but monastic silence does not mean never interacting with humanity again. It's more to do with not speaking unnecessarily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_silence#Practice_of_silence_by_ordained_and_laity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_silence#Practice_of_s...