![Daniel Suelo lives in a cave.
Nine years ago, in the autumn of 2000, Suelo decided to stop using money. He just quit it, like a bad drug habit.
His dwelling, hidden high in a canyon lined with waterfalls, is an hour by foot from the desert town of Moab, Utah, where people who know him are of two minds: He’s either a latter-day prophet or an irredeemable hobo. Suelo’s blog, which he maintains free at the Moab Public Library, suggests that he’s both. ‘When I lived with money, I was always lacking,’ he writes. ‘Money represents lack. Money represents things in the past (debt) and things in the future (credit), but money never represents what is present.’
[…]’A true test of faith would be to return to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping nations on earth and be a sadhu there. To be a vagabond in America, a bum, and make an art of it—the idea enchanted me.’](http://24.media.tumblr.com/6Akhqq4XYqiiwfqboh29THrfo1_250.jpg)
Daniel Suelo lives in a cave.
Nine years ago, in the autumn of 2000, Suelo decided to stop using money. He just quit it, like a bad drug habit.
His dwelling, hidden high in a canyon lined with waterfalls, is an hour by foot from the desert town of Moab, Utah, where people who know him are of two minds: He’s either a latter-day prophet or an irredeemable hobo. Suelo’s blog, which he maintains free at the Moab Public Library, suggests that he’s both. ‘When I lived with money, I was always lacking,’ he writes. ‘Money represents lack. Money represents things in the past (debt) and things in the future (credit), but money never represents what is present.’
[…]’A true test of faith would be to return to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping nations on earth and be a sadhu there. To be a vagabond in America, a bum, and make an art of it—the idea enchanted me.’
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