I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.