Writing a Preamble to Books

Remember who you were and what you thought.

I once read a book on contemplative prayer that had me convinced, by the end, that I was a contemplative.

The passive reception of information is dangerous. It can give us the illusion that we know something—or worse, that we’re already doing something—when we haven’t even begun.

We also don’t usually realize the ways in which books change us, or chang…