"Wherever You Go, There You Are"

     For many, the above statement may disappoint. After all, don't we pay a lot to "get away from it all," to spend a week or two in a "tropical paradise," and as a result, perhaps "feel like a different person"?
     Yet, the title of Jon Kabat-Zinn's classic book suggests that it's not at all about physical location, but one's attitude, or state of being, not external but internal locus of control, not having to smooth out & control the external physical environment, but cultivating hardiness. It appears that happiness is an inside job.