One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is
isolation. If we look closely at other kinds of poverty, including
material forms, we see that they are born from isolation, from not being
loved or from difficulties in being able to love. Poverty is often
produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency
to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self-sufficient or merely
an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a “stranger” in a random universe.
Man is alienated when he is alone, when he is detached from reality, when
he stops thinking and believing in a foundation[125]. All of humanity is
alienated when too much trust is placed in merely human projects,
ideologies and false utopias[126]