But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars-compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (ed. Little, Brown, 2009) - ISBN: 9780316071000