"No I don't."
It is a different view from yours, isn't it. It is from the writings of a very, very holy Orthodox monastic, Archimandrite Sophrony of blessed memory, a Russian who spent the majority of his life on Mount Athos, seven of those years as a solitary, and in a monastery outside London of all places. His entire life was spent in prayer and study of the scriptures. He died in 1993.
Isn't it interesting that the indwelling of the HS lead this man to a vision of God so different from that which we hear about in the West?
It is very different indeed.
As to being indwelt by the Holy Spirit, this is something that is experienced by all believers. Spending a life in seclusion from society does not deepen the indwelling for when we are saved we have as much of the Spirit as we are going to have. Spending extended time in the Word can certainly deepen our understanding of it, and usually does, but it does not make us perfect people.
Your monastic appears (and I only say this because none of us truly knows the inward man)to have spent his life devoted to God. He did not become a perfect human though (not that you were claiming perfection for him). If what he said was in conflict with Scripture (and I hold that it was in this instance), it should be rejected no matter how blessed is memory was.
God does not await us in the sense of Him reacting to what we are going to do. When we become ready, it is only because the Spirit has already been at work in our lives. Again, it is all His initiative, His drawing, His wooing, and His sovereign action on our minds and hearts by supplying us with believing faith. Faith itself is, after all, a fruit of the Spirit.
If God is our physician, the monasteries are His clinics. If what the Physician prescribes works, there is where the proof can be found.