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"Tapping into these internal answers requires external knowledge. Perhaps that’s why a journey can be so transformative, because it gives you a type of self-monitored x-ray vision and the rate at which you mature and grow during fifteen months on the road is much faster than fifteen months at home."

"We tend to look outside for answers that are inside of us. My journey was precisely such a case. I had thought that the stimulation of foreign places would disentangle me from a life at home that I had found boring and joyless. There had been so much hunger inside me to escape. And now that I had done that for nearly a year and a half, I was coming right back to where I started, to little old me."

now in turkey!

"In the minds of most Americans, the name Hezbollah conjures images of burly Islamic thugs conducting guerrilla warfare. But I learned that Hezbollah was also responsible for building many schools, hospitals, and clinics neglected by the Lebanese government."