Goodreads asked Donald L. Hicks:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Donald L. Hicks I began meditating and taking quiet walks in the woods a few years back. During these times, I'd sometimes hear the whisper of a single word. It was akin to intuition.

When this happened, that whispered word would often become somewhat of an unspoken "theme" in my life. For two or three weeks after hearing the whispered word, it would repeatedly come up during conversations, or would be an integral part of certain situations. It was like seeing synchronicity in motion, over and over again. Eventually, a "quote" would be whispered to me that included the word, and because of the experiences I'd had regarding the word, this quote would have deep significance. More than once, it brought me to the verge of tears. I eventually began keeping a Word document, wrote down all the old quotes I could remember, and began adding the new quotes. It wasn't long before the Word document of these little "pearls of wisdom" grew to 50 pages. Looking over these quotes, I knew I had plenty of material for a book, and within 2 months, "Look into the stillness" emerged.

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