Technology has cut out much of life's donkeywork, and we have more freedoms than ever: we can wear what we like and communicate with hundreds of friends at once at the click of a mouse.

Just imagine if all of us Shared The Abundance Course with a fraction of that number.

"I want to experience during my Christmas the same hardships ordinary Iraqis experience everyday, so that I may better 46 empathize with their distress," he wrote.