You Don't Need a Condo in Beaver Creek

I've had this quote on my office door during Lent, even though I have yet to read the book. The quote alone is plenty to ponder:

The deeper spiritual life is never a direct route. If it were, religion in the suburbs would be the fast track to the Godhead, given the First World's entrepreneurial and managerial bent. I could just control my way to Jesus. In the toxic dump of efficiency and control, though, the first act must be counter-cultural--a decision not to act. This is the first spiritual practice. A choice to listen and wait for God. Making time for space for God is the most basic element of spirituality. You can't stop your busyness, really. You begin to open your life to God in small amounts. You don't need a condo in Beaver Creek or a monk's cell on the grounds of a rural retreat center. You don't need to go anywhere. You need just a modicum of will to begin the practice of solitude and swim upstream against the suburban current.

David L. Goetz, Death by Suburb, p. 26