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physics indefinitely, even though it was my passion at the moment. Because of that, I decided to leave behind me the best gift that I could for those who would come later. A spirit of giving pervades this book, and that is one reason why, I believe, The Dancing Wu Li Masters has been so appreciated by more than a million readers, in many languages, around the world.
    Another reason is that The Dancing Wu Li Masters contains within it the seed of the thought that consciousness lies at the heart of all that we can experience, all that we can conceive, and all that we are. It also points toward the possibility that intentions create the reality that we experience. These thoughts were pondered by many of the founders of quantum mechanics as they discussed complementarity, the Uncertainty Principle and other aspects of the mathematical formalism that became known as the quantum theory. They are still pondered by philosophically inclined physicists today.
    When I began writing The Dancing Wu Li Masters , I could only suspect or deduce things about the role of consciousness and intention in the creation of experience, but I soon discovered that some of the founders of quantum mechanics had suspected and deduced the same things decades before me. This was exciting enough, yet as I became more engaged in the writing, I began to encounter phenomena that I never could have imagined. For example, I realized that the book that I was writing was more intelligent than I was. It was also funnier than I was, and it had a grander comprehension than I did. For example, I prepared an outline for each chapter before I began to write. The outline contained the central idea of the chapter, what I wanted to include in the chapter, how I intended to order the content of the chapter, and how I intended to present the ideas in the chapter.
    In every instance, I would write not for long before I had to choose between following the outline that I had prepared and going with the energy that developed as I wrote. I always went with the energy. If I had planned a certain discussion, but another one occurred to me that felt more exciting, I used the second discussion. I substituted examples, words, and ideas as they occurred to me for those that I had put into my outline. And I was amazed at the experience of a chapter coming to an end—at how clear it was for me, and how often the ending of a chapter surprised and delighted me.
    As I wrote more chapters, I noticed something else, too. The chapters fit together perfectly—even though I had not planned them that way. I might have been able to take credit for this if I had followed each of the outlines that I had prepared. But I never followed my outlines. I always followed the flow of energy and excitement that I felt as I wrote.
    Who orchestrated this? Who planned for a chapter—one that I completed before I began research on a later chapter—to fit into a later chapter as though I had written them together? Where did the humor in the book come from—the humor that took me away from the torment of my daily judgements about myself and others? Where did the gratitude originate that replaced my worries about paying the rent, which obsessed me when I was not writing?
    Eventually, the reality of these miracles became a part of my awareness. So did the contrast between the painful life that I lived when I was not working on The Dancing Wu Li Masters and the fulfillment that I felt when I was. At last, I decided to live my entire life the way that The Dancing Wu Li Masters was being written—spontaneously, intelligently, and joyfully. Eventually I learned how to do this, and how to explain how to do it.
    At the time I did not have the vocabulary to articulate what I was experiencing, or the ability to understand it. It was not until later that I was able to understand that writing The Dancing Wu Li Masters was my first experience of authentic power—of meaning, fulfillment, and purpose. It was also my first