Yes... all this, yes. This is one of the primary reasons I still want to take a month off and go live in a monastary; denomination doesn't matter - what matters is to spend a while simply living, in meditation, prayer, simple activities, uncluttered... I want to find out what I'm like when I'm not surrounded by *waves arms and knocks things off shelves* all this stuff, all this noise. I want to find out what it's like to be truly quiet.

Yes.