...I write this book mostly in the affirmative. As if I’m proclaiming things with certainty. Some things more than others.

 

Though all things carry within them something else too. There’s a question here, within everything that I say. Even the things that sound confident in their rightness. There’s a question that is asking, “do you resonate with this?” Each sentence asks this. First of me and then of you.
 

The entire book is written as if it was here to make sense of things for people. Though it is also something I am writing as a process of sensing into the making to begin with. Each thing that I type I am writing to someone—to you—and as I do that, I think about how you might react and that interaction that we’ve been having—even before you knew that we were having it—has helped me sharpen my thoughts. It’s the same sort of interaction that I’ve been having with myself. Through the entire editing process and even now as printed versions are held in people’s hands, I get opportunities for seeing things I’ve said from different angles. And I get feedback that changes or reinforces my ways of thinking. This book is not simply a knowledge transfer. It is a dialogue. And within every statement there is a question asking about its own truth and within every question there is a statement highlighting the need for it’s asking...