In the midst of getting mugged on the streets of Hell's Kitchen, something happened that transformed my sense of my possibilities as a human being, and my sense of connection to the cosmos — and to the divine. The spiritual life, I learned, isn't a metaphor or a remote possibility. It is a reality, a way of being in the world, and it is as full of adventure as anything I could wish for in my ordinary life.
— Tracy Cochran, Jeff Zaleski, Transformations