The Importance of Slowing Down

Emerson: The one thing you can't escape in your life is yourself. Those who think they will find solutions to all their problems by traveling far from home, perhaps as they stare at the Colosseum or some enormous moss covered statue of Buddha, Emerson said, are bringing ruins to ruins. "A plane ticket or a pill or some plant medicine is a treadmill, not a shortcut," he wrote.