I had two messages to deliver in this book. The first is about spiritual living. I think it’s plain. Ordinary people do it, and they don’t even know they are doing it. In the middle of plain lives, with regular joys and griefs, they live with grace and kindness and are happy. The second message is about wisdom teachers. They are all over the place. I noticed as this book evolved that many of my teachers were people in airplanes. I briefly considered some esoteric symbolic significance like, “airplanes move you to new places” or “airplanes rise up high,” but I knew that was extra
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