Table of Contents
Preface 9
Acknowledgments 13
Introduction: Abiding 15
Part 1 Attention 25
The Death of a Conversation 25
Conversation in a Ride Share 27
Retreat? Never! Advance! 30
Be Released! Please! 34
Three Great Mysteries 39
A Doctor and His Dog 42
A Thousand and One Taliban 45
Confession Doesn't Mean Saying You're Sorry 47
Silencing the Room 50
Part 2 Awareness 63
The Three Faces of Me: The Real, the True, and the False 63
You're the Welcome Wagon? 64
What's in a Name? 66
War: What Is It Good For? 68
The King and I … and All the Rest of Us Too 69
This Is Only a Test 71
The Leader of the Pack 73
Now You See Me, Now You Don't 75
The Dis-ease of Introspection: Walking Side by Side with Myself 79
Part 3 Annunciation 91
If Only You'd Asked 92
Is That a Fake ID? 98
Do What? Are You Talking to Me? 101
Come See the One! 106
The Cat in the Hat 111
Where Does My Help Come From? 115
Stop the Traffic. 118
Any Questions? 119
Make the Big Ask 124
Part 4 Action 139
Delivering a Deliverer 146
An Unorthodox Orthodoxy 149
The Fatality of Fear 155
Kairos versus Chronos 158
From Coward to Counselor 160
Back to the Beginning 164
Notes 167