Why I am writing this book
The gift is already given
When you surrender to fear and distraction
When you joyfully surrender to God
Prayer-practicing heaven now
Three ways to view the sunset
The urgent need for contemplative seeing
What it means to be a mystic
We should have "known" better
Knowing worse : all-or-nothing thinking
Knowing better : contemplation and presence
Mystical Christianity : a critique from within
The limitations of individualism
A debate everyone can win
Glimpses of wonder : the quest is begun
But we have to make judgments, don't we?
We see what we are ready to see
The radical perceptual shift : is it true?
Not many things, but one thing
Getting thrown off your horse : sudden conversion
How Martha becomes Mary : willfulness and willingness
The two heels of a Christian achilles
Conversion : begin by changing the seer
Three levels of conversion
Different religions, same ego resistance
Heaven and hell : you must change again and again
Things "too good to be true" : from polarity thinking to prayer
Alternative consciousness
Experience impossible and improbable things
The decline of contemplation
More recent rediscoveries
Faith is more how to believe than what to believe
Opening the door : great love and great suffering
What nondual thinking is not
The watchful gaze : what do we mean by being "awake"?
The meaning of spiritual love
Sinners, mystics, and astrophysicists : how to celebrate paradox
What it means to follow Jesus
What every good leader knows
The principle of likeness : in the end, it all comes down to this