Thank you to the patient and wise team at CICO Books—Carmel Edmonds, Cindy Richards, Kristine Pidkameny, Emily Breen, and Rosie Fairhead. Thanks as well to Katherine Snelson, Dr. Pooja Amy Shah, and my agent Susan Lee Cohen who helped form and finesse the ideas for this book. I’m grateful to Lama Surya Das, Miles Neale, and Bonnie Myotai Treace for the gift of their teachings, and to Duane Stapp who is always my best first reader.