"One can take a spiritual journey without ever leaving home. And the notion that anyone ‘leaves everything behind’ is actually laughable. Wherever we
go, we bring ourselves; we bring all of the past experiences that make us, us. So, to borrow a Hebrew adage, while hanging our location may change our destiny, the journey to transform ourselves begins with a journey inward, not outward. That’s an insight as old as the Genesis story of Abraham...."

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By Brad Hirschfield from FoxNews.com’s Fox Forum, Opinion

Also Appeared in the L.A. Times Daily.com, 8/13/10