““PREFACE This is a book about writing as a spiritual practice. This is not a book about spiritual writing. Spiritual writing—inspirational writing—has to conform to what the reader finds inspirational. Spiritual writing has to make the reader feel safe, certain, and self-satisfied; it has to leave the reader believing that what she already knows is all that she needs to know. Writing as a spiritual practice is something else entirely. Writing as a spiritual practice has nothing to do with readers per se. You””
